Liza Blue Humorist

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.

It’s a Tagless World

Americans won’t tolerate annoyance. Underwear tags are annoying. Boom, there’s a marketing campaign for Hanes’ new tagless T-shirts. Are you kidding me?

Good Humor Man

A Good Humor man making housecalls,? Not in our household. My father considered this an ostentatious luxury.

A Glass of Orange Juice

A moldy glass of orange juice totally upends by carefully ordered suburban childhood.

Two Truths and a Lie

A discussion of how a simple truth or lie can change your identity, centered on the physical oddity of a third nipple.

Squirrel in the Kitchen

The squirrel must be killed, but whose job is it?

Mouth Feel

Honey mousse at Sunday lunches with my grandparents started my love affair with mouth feel desserts.

What the Eff?

Why is it that I just cannot bring myself to swear – it would be so cathartic.