Author Archives: Mischa

Shhhh

How to write about silence when the very act of doing so conjures up a voice in ones head?  That narrator’s voice that accompanies such writings and hopefully sounds something like Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones.  Today’s goal, though, … Continue reading

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Loop-de-loo

I’ve got a song stuck in my head.  It’s an old childhood song that goes something like: Here we go loop-de-loo. Here we go loop-de-la. Here we go loop-de-loo. All on a Saturday night.   I wonder if this song’s … Continue reading

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Occupy Walmart

Eating at a fast food establishment recently I experienced the unimaginable. The soda fountain wasn’t working! The enticingly colored machine, full of delicious promise, was actually bleeding, its malfunctioning ice-maker causing a perpetual stream of water to pour from the … Continue reading

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Sliced Bread

The term “the greatest thing since sliced bread” started out innocently enough, a 1928 marketing strategy for Kleen Maid Bread in Chillicothe, Ohio. The original phrase was “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”, although … Continue reading

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