Hype. That's the Kosher (meaning Terry Bradshaw approved) word to describe the rabid entertainment blitz surrounding the biggest foot...

Everything is going back into the box and into the attic or basement, wherever seasonal garbage calls home. The wreaths, fake holly...

I was considering a lawsuit. I consulted my attorney and discussed the possibility with likely co-plaintiffs. I even drafted a letter of i...

Try something for me, will you? Ask a handful of friends what kind of car they drive. You don't have to quit your day job or go all Zo...

I am a huge New England Patriots fan. I know Tom Brady, Asante Samuel, Teddy Bruschi, Randy Moss and Lawrence Maroney by name. I regularly w...

How do our young learn to count? Do they learn in kindergarten in front of a caring teacher and a colorful piece of cardboard? Do they g...

Jack was my best friend and room mate. We were both Political Science majors at a bad state university, and one day, Jack got an envelope in...

Todd gets up this morning, as he does every morning to the sound of his Quartz alarm ringing on his Stanley dresser. He showers under a dir...

Wow. I just had my first Red Bull in over 10 months. The last time I treated myself to the lightly carbonated deliciousness of the world...

I know that in writing this I am undoubtedly communicating to a passel of aspiring linguists who have a rudimentary understanding of every t...

We received the following in an email, accompanied by a quaint message reminding us that we have more female friends than just our moms. Th...

Yeah, yeah. I know. You graduated from Fairy Tales and don't plan on returning until you have children. But these Fairy Tales aren't...

As aspiring minimum wage earners, we here at FCN took the news of the House of Representative's approval of a wage hike very seriously....

In case you missed it, yesterday was the Winter Solstice, the beginning of the end of the cold months. The significance of the Solstice as...

In response to my post about wanting to celebrate Kwanzaa this year , I got a very thoughtful (read: long) email from an FCN reader on the i...

It takes a lot to get me to get up early on a holiday, especially one that follows the great feasts of Thanksgiving. I normally snore throu...

It was the second hour of French class and I was getting pretty thirsty. The professor was droning on about stress accents and the tails of...