Humor: Self reflection 65 Articles

by Ashly Martin

Curiosity didn't kill me, it led me to acting class. Within minutes of entering the room my heart began to race. This was not an uncommon feeling. I often felt this way in new situations and being here at the Morale, We...read more

by Amanda Mccoy

Have you ever wondered why life doesn't turn out the way you planned? It's like you set down specific "rules" for yourself when you're younger, like "I'm going to do this before I graduate college." or "I'm going to do thi...read more

by Ron Tocknell

For much of my life I've known that something was...... well, if not WRONG exactly, certainly not quite right. I've never fully felt a part of the human race. It wasn't until I reached my mid teens that I started to recogn...read more

by Emily West

Finding the Perfect Sofa Writers tend to be magpies, so I'll have to admit that the idea for this piece came from an article I read in a magazine about a chipped white cup. The writer tells how the white coffee cup wa...read more

by Robert Braswell

Omigosh! Is That Really Milk Coming Out of That Cow? Comment from reader: Anonymous This was a cute story, and I can relate to it very well, having been raised in the country where we hand-milked a cow each morning an...read more

by Laura Owens

Spatial Relations. I'm so directionally challenged that even my soft spoken GPS lady can tick me off and steer me wrong, and she's programmed for a high rate of user success. I walk in circles looking for my car in cr...read more

by Marsha Sigman

I like to think that I march to the beat of a different drummer, maybe that one-armed drummer from Def Leopard. I don't want to follow someone else's path. I want to clear-cut a back roads crooked trail of my own. I...read more

by Kay Bolen

I recently read a novel titled "The Whistling Season" by Ivan Doig. It was a wonderful story about a widowed man living in Montana with his three young sons in the 1920's. One day, the man read a newspaper advertisement fo...read more

by Morbid Gherkin

If I knew then what I know now.... Sound familiar? It seems life has it own little ways of telling you you're an idiot and you may as well have stayed in bed for the last 30 years. You grow up as a child with id...read more

by J. McCoy

So, here I sit, looking at the other side of 50 and wondering what I have accomplished so far in life. Well, lets see...I've gotten older, is that an accomplishment? I guess some would say so. Especially those who may not ...read more

by Bob Rehak

It's no mystery that life is full of mysteries. There are things that happen that Plato, Einstein and even Alex Trebek could never explain. The mysteries we encounter make life interesting, unless they keep you awake at ni...read more

by Mick Wilkinson

Failure is like Broccoli. You know its good for you but given a choice between that an a chocolate fondue it's hardly a genuine competition. Actually, in a sick kind of way, I think I like failure. I'm looking at a quot...read more

by Becca Behrent

When you've reached the age I have, there is plenty to self-reflect on. If you don't want to self-reflect, someone will hold the mirror to your face anyway, and MAKE you do it! It's bad enough that I do look in the mirror...read more

by Jon Tran

"Being Carmen" Every day I wake up. I take a shower... get dressed. Medicine. Brush my teeth. I do this every day because I am not Carmen Sandiego. With newly clean teeth, I gargle and check whether or not I shoul...read more

by Diane Baumann

One evening, as I was taking my two-year old, usually quiet and observing daughter up the sharp-inclined stairwell to bed, she surprised me by stating flatly: "It smells like a cat-litter box in here." The way she said...read more

by Diana Hockley

THE ART OF SULKING I rarely sulk, but when given to do so, it is necessary to make sure that it is done everywhere. The lounge room is a good place if there is anyone else at home, as those in the house can't miss what ...read more

by Vicki Brown

When we bought our first house, my husband's parents gave us a brand new washing machine and a not so new dryer. They had had it for awhile and it still worked and it was hardly damaged by the fire that gutted their house ...read more

by Donna Marie Gray

LIFES LITTLE LESSONS TO KEEP IN A BOX: Things I have learned through trial and error As we reach maturity we have experienced much of life's trials and tribulations and, hopefully, have learned something from them. Af...read more

by Andi Arsana

When Your Name Is a "Simple Past Tense" William Shakespeare, a great poet, said, "What's in a name?" to illustrate that there is nothing to worry about a name. Name is just a name. In contrary, Bung Karno, The Indonesia...read more

by Kelly Piercy

I'm blind (and apparently, at times, dumb). I was busily reading articles; looking for misspellings, errors in grammar, formatting errors, deciding is the structure and cohesiveness of the writing was good, deciding if t...read more