Ben Franklin’s Lost Love Letter to His Turkey Mistress

June 20, 1782

19 things that emote more than Ryan Gosling’s acting

Sick of watching Gosling’s thousand-yard stare for hours in every one of his movies?

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A Modest Land Proposal or How I Plan to Solve the Housing Crisis, Traffic Congestion and Shark Attacks in Silicon Valley

If My Cats Traveled

Escaping regret through a world of fantasy

Why I Write, and How it Changed Me

“Why would a hard-nosed businessman become a writer?”

Pardon Me, Mr. President

I know you have your pick of turkeys to pardon this Thanksgiving, but after hearing my pitch I think you’ll…

Deceased Literary Lions Disrupt Your Thanksgiving

(or How fictional characters from The Canon shoot off their mouths at Thanksgiving)

Does Anybody Actually Eat Cranberry Sauce?

I remember the first time I saw cranberry sauce on the table at Thanksgiving.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade was wrapping up and the pleasing aroma of my mother’s baking pulled me off our shag carpet where I was sprawled in…