Richard's Pretension

While shopping at the local supermarket last week, a few teen boys in line in back of me at the checkout counter were dissing other teens no...

I don’t consume a lot of alcohol of any kind. My alcohol consumption was immodest for a spate in my 20s, after which I became a near teetota...

I had a curious encounter outside a barber shop toward which I was headed because my hair had somehow succeeded at the neat trick of being b...

While running errands yesterday on a roundtrip drive of no more than 20 miles (32km) I bypassed three road repair crews: two simply patching...

An unabashed carnivore (well, omnivore actually), I had lunch last week at a local smokehouse . The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter was playi...

Carrie Fisher in her one-woman show Wishful Drinking warned about the dangers of Googling yourself “without a lubricant.” (I suggest a high ...

I read myself to sleep most nights. Anytime from 5 minutes to 2 hours after opening the book (yes, an old-fashioned paper-and-ink one) I zon...