Liza Blue Humorist

Ah! Wonderlic!

A sixty year old woman joins football rookies and takes the Wonderlic test.

Occupation Housewife

Contemplating my mother struggles with the 1950s ideal of Occupation: Housewife

A Parent Death

Why didn’t I choose to stay at my mother’s bedside as she died? It’s still a mystery.

Symbolic Gestures

In college, I was convinced that symbolism would be my downfall. I would never get my diploma.

Of Death and Window Wells

What is it about the fall that prompts birds to fly into our window and then drop to their death in the window wells?

All Aboard

The romance of an overnight train ride from the eyes of a preteen.

The Delicate Art of Potty Humor

All human beings from the time of the first humanoid to the present have one thing in common – an occasional jolt of potty humor.

The Upside of Maggots

Time for an attitude adjustment on maggots – they have been repurposed as medical devices that can clean wounds.

Bad Baby Shower

A foolish attempt to be a creative gift-giver at a baby shower goes disastrously wrong.  All wrong.

Thinking Outside the Myers-Briggs Box

When the good folks at Myers and Briggs have put you in the socially awkward box, negotiating a cocktail party requires a strategy and the nerves to stick to it.