Awkwardness

The Awkward Dance of Small Talk

Small talk is the social equivalent of elevator music. Nobody asked for it, nobody enjoys it, yet somehow we all…

3 months ago

When Sparks Return Uninvited

Don and Betty had reached that stage of marriage where the kids move out and the house goes quiet enough…

6 months ago

Autocorrect: Humanity’s Final Warning

I’m convinced autocorrect wasn’t invented to help us. It was created by bored engineers who thought, “Let’s see how many…

7 months ago

When Kids Take Things Literally

Teachers deserve hazard pay. Forget the chalk dust, the endless paperwork, and the math problems that make grown adults question…

7 months ago

When Test Results Go… Down There

He lay quietly in the hospital bed, the steady beeping of the monitors filling the room like background music in…

10 months ago