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A Summery Throwback
A cool story for a hot day.
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The Ice Cream Paradox
Coffee ice cream is my kryptonite.
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Tillamook Creamery
Because… cheese.
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Let Reality Be Beautiful
Things are good. Almost too good. So good, in fact, that sometimes I panic. That annoying little voice in my head whispers, “This is too good to be true. It can’t be real. You’re overlooking something. Or all the great people around you will finally see you for the inherently flawed individual that you are…
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Too Much of a Good Thing
When I was young and thin and had the metabolism of a hummingbird, I worked for a few months in a place that sold, among other things, ice cream. I was in heaven. All the ice cream I could eat! Well, that lasted, at most, a couple weeks. I took such advantage of that perk…
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Tony the Ice Cream Man
When I was little, there was an ice cream truck that routinely visited the Connecticut projects where we lived. For people who couldn’t afford vacations, it was one of the few ways you could really tell that summer had arrived. That, and at the tail end of the baby boom the neighborhood was lousy with…
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Poor Chifferobe, Bless Her Heart
So my boss calls me and says he needs me to work on the drawbridge from midnight to 8 a.m., which believe it or not is great news, because I sure could use the money. But since I’m the resident floater who can be called in at a moment’s notice to work any day, any…