Columnist, Sheila
Moss, is a free-lance writer from Tennessee. She writes
funny stuff about southern life, women's issues, family
matters and anything else that she finds amusing.
She is
seen weekly in the Aberdeen Examiner, Angleton
Advocate, Daily News of Kingsport (online) and
appears in a monthly humor publication called Foolish
Times. She has written for Atlanta Woman Magazine,
and a supplement of the Murfreesboro Daily News
Journal. She has been
published by Voyageur Press, McGraw Hill, and the good folks
at Guidepost Books have recently published a number of her
articles in their Let There Be Laughter series of
books. Her articles have appeared in
numerous other publications, both print and online.
She is a board member and the Web
Editor of Columnists.com, website of the National Society of Newspaper
Columnists, the
oldest and largest professional organization
for news columnists. She is also the Web Editor of
SouthernHumorists.com, as well as this website, HumorColumnist.com.
To carry her self- syndicated weekly column in your
newspaper, or
to republish an
article, please contact her.
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Less you be confused, my cat cannot fly like a bird.
Misty flies more like Superman, minus the cape, that is, leaping
tall buildings in a single bound. All cats can jump, of
course, but Misty seems to have extraordinary abilities in this
particular feline skill.
I’m so tired I can’t hold my eyes open, but I can’t fall asleep. I might miss
my final bid on eBay. It all started about a week ago when I decided that a turquoise and silver necklace would be a nice accessory to have.
I put “buy turquoise necklace” in a search engine and eventually found myself on
eBay.
I
love a parade! Who doesn’t? There are homecoming
parades, Thanksgiving parades, parades for the Fourth of July.
But the parade I participating in recently was a jazz band
parade in New Orleans.
New Orleans is known as the “birthplace of jazz” and jazz
has become a traditional music suitable for almost every
occasion there. There are jazz bands at weddings,
conventions, parties, celebrations of all kinds -- even funeral
processions.
Murphy’s
original law is an old adage, “If anything can go wrong, it
will.” Little league ball is over for another season and
Murphy’s Law was a bat a good part of the season. Here are
some of the truisms of little league baseball that can be
observed in action at almost every game and attested to by
anyone who’s ever been involved in baseball for kids as a
player or spectator. These things seem to happen too often to be
mere coincidence, therefore, we feel absolutely certain that
Murphy was playing for both teams.
In my purse is a piece of paper and on it are eight things to do. Why do people
make “to do” lists anyhow? Does it somehow make me feel more important to have
a list of things to do? Or is it just that my memory is so bad that I will not
be able to remember what to do without a “to do” list?
“So,
what’s the big deal about mules?” asked my grandson, as he
skated in circles balancing himself on the heels of his wheeled
tennis shoes, a new skill he is just now beginning to master.
We are trying to get ready to go to Columbia, Tennessee, for the
annual Mule Day parade. Not that I’m crazy about mules, or
anything else equine, but it’s something different to do, and
a chance to get away from the omnipresent computer games that
consume a child’s mind these days.
Since
Starbucks has been in the news lately, I decided to give them another try and do
a bit of field research for a column. I’m not a gourmet coffee person. My idea
of gourmet coffee is buying a cup at Mapco when I stop for gas.
I was supposed to make chili this weekend to take to the office
today. What can I do? It’s time to go to work --- too late to
cook now. They are counting on me, and there may not be enough
chili without mine!
We went
to a breeder and picked her out even before she was old enough to
come home. She was cute, I must admit, really cute.
