What’s In A Name?
Kids Are All Alike These Days
By J. Elijah Bray

The other day my stepdaughter told her mom that she was going to Amanda’s house for a sleepover. “Which Amanda?” I asked. She has six Amanda friends. Her other eighteen friends are Ashley, Alicia and Melissa. She does have one friend named Mary. Mary is obviously the product of radical parents. The other girls must tease her terribly.

RAM, ROM and Rheindeer
A Holy High Tech Holiday
By J. Elijah Bray

I finally achieved the ultimate dream of a 1960’s teenager – life in Hugh Heffner’s Mansion, a haven with every electronic entertainment device available including a wall of sound and pictures that eliminates the need or desire to ever go outside. The problem is I can’t operate any of it. I’m looking at a bank of silent screens knowing I’m just a few correct co-axle cable connections from sensory Valhalla. Yet I sit surrounded by this potential virtual reality, reduced to playing ‘Missile Command’ on my Atari – the same set-up I recently saw on exhibit at Smithsonian.

By Now I'm a Memory Expert
Now, All I Have To Do Is Remember Why
I sat down to write my weekly humor column, but I just could not remember what I wanted to write about. This seems to be an increasingly more common affliction, ever since I turned 40. For instance, like most people over 40, I often can't remember my age.

I'm a Kennedy Cousin
Look out, Martha's Vineyard, here I come! -- Humor by Paul Pence
Make room for me in the Kennedy compound -- set an extra place at the table, Cousin Teddy, I'm on my way to Cape Cod. I just married in to the Kennedy clan.

Life Under the Glidepath
I've learned to love Southwest Airlines -- Humor by Paul Pence

Making Rhode Island Cool
Taking a 10-year-old to see the Big Blue Bug

Is it spring yet?
Test yourself and find out...

Those Were the Days
What went first, the Almac's or the memory? Humor by J. Elijah Bray

I'm An Urban Legend
No, make that THE urban legand -- Humor by Paul Pence

Super Secret Diet Secrets
Can you keep a secret? So can I

Happy Horrordays
For some people, holidays are not very happy

Building a Rhode House
Learning from MTV rappers how to motivate builders

What, Me Volunteer?
How come people who donate blood don't run out?

I Miss My Hair
Of course I could keep it in a box next to the bed...

A Letter From the Pack 10 Scoutmaster
Some camping trips will never be forgotten, or forgiven

Sweet Bread, Zeppoles and ‘God Save The Queen’
The great Rhode Island melting pot can be a little lumpy...

Sleeps Two
The Prime Directive of motor homing...

Off the Leash
Winter's over and the ice cream stores are open.

Adventure Travel
Want real adventure travel? Bring the kids on a road trip!

My dogs love me... Honest!
Or so they pretend

That's MISTER Road Rage to You
and don't you forget it

Trapped in K-Mart
or is it trapped in a marriage?

Rhode Island Fashion Disaster
Time for the new fashion season

All Set?
The one-size-fits-all Rhode Island phrase

All Set, Yet?
Can't get enough of "all set".

Waddling to Work
New Year's resolutions come due

Yard Sale Season, At Last!
Let's buy something, there's still room in the attic

Yucky Foods
Everybody has something they won't eat
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