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Bright Pink Lipstick
I’ve spent the last several years writing blog posts about the Recession. Here’s how it started: an old friend of mine got hold of me. It turns out he was an editor for a website about the New Economy,...
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Starving Writer’s Fund
. . . and thank you for making it possible for me to write for you!
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The Worst Kind of Fool
Earlier this week I wrote a self-pitying blog post for shareable.net. I’m happy to say that it didn’t get published before I had a chance to review it and revise it. Below are excerpts, which I’m...
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Changing How We Mow the Lawn Changed Who We Are
Sometimes a lawn mower can change everything. I always associated nice weather with the deafening “rrrrrrrrrrrr” of lawn mowers. It’s not a bad sound for most of us; it’s generally something that...
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What Happens to the Apples
Start with a dilapidated but cheap house. Move there under duress perhaps, maybe because it’s cheaper or because you need safe haven from things that are harming you. Make sure the tree is there, in...
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What it Feels Like to Sell Your Family’s Only Car
When the cable and Internet got shut off, I could hide my shame and embarrassment from the kids, who were oblivious to the threatening collection letters. None of us had to face the person sent out to...
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I’ll Take Your Halloween and Raise You a Thanksgiving
I’m grateful for garden gnomes, cuckoo clocks, climbing trees with gnarled branches, and moss. For coffee and chai, nutmeg and cinnamon. For citron yellow, magenta, map water blue, chartreuse, and a...
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Buddha’s Journey
I’ve had amazing experiences since I started writing semi-professionally. I’ve seen my byline in The New York Times. I’ve filled out my IRS tax forms with my profession listed as “writer,” and seen...
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Hasty Pudding
When, several years ago, we succumbed to unavoidable financial pressure and sold our only family vehicle to help cover the rent for awhile, it was my son, Zeke, the analytical type, the scientist, who...
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Robert Cockerham is Smarter, Weirder, and Funnier Than You
Robert Cockerham and Yours Truly (This piece was originally commissioned by MAKE Magazine, but ended up on Yahoo.com, from where it has since disappeared. I feel it is only right and just to reprint it...
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