Category: Think Outside the Box

Mama had the eagle eye for chanterelles.  Marching through the dense forest near our summer dacha, she would often stop and point. “Right there, under the birch tree.” To be fair, they were not hard to spot.  Yellow clusters in a sea of green.  These days, I see them on sale for $29.99 for a […]

Click here for Part I: Our Family’s Encounter with COVID-19 Part II : Fighting For Our Lives Sunday, March 29. I wake up at 7:30 am. Temperature? 98.6. Feeling better. Hmmm. But having read about the peak happening on day 9 with many people, too early to celebrate. But Alicia wakes up at 10 am […]

Part I: The Tsunami Is Coming The news reports from China started catching my eye in late January. On January 30, I recall my first conversation with a coworker about the new virus. “This is more dangerous than Ebola,” I told her as we rode the B train down to Lower East Side. “Very contagious, […]

-А кто там на лестнице топает? – спросил Коровьев, пыхнув планчик из кальяна. -А это менты нас вязать идут, – ответил Азазелло, ширяясь герычем из баяна. -Значит, тухлая малина. Валить надо отсюда, – ответил на это Коровьев. Подымающийся отряд лягавых уже был на площадке третьего этажа. Там какие-то два чувака возились с трубой. Менты обменялись […]

On December 11, 2005, a nuclear device was detonated in Manhattan next to Madison Square Garden, on the corner of 32nd Street and 7th Avenue. The nuke was small.  It was tailor-made to fit into a large Samsonite suitcase.  The blast was only half the magnitude of the bomb that hit Hiroshima sixty years before.  But […]

Without any notice or due process, I woke up one morning to find a second penis growing out of my navel. This quickly became a matter of grave concern to me.  Oh, how much havoc a few extra inches of meat can wreak upon a man’s mind!  Two hours later, I was in The Doctor’s […]