I write a weekly humor column called At Home with Brutalism at the Oakton Patch here in lovely Oakton, Virginia. Read my published columns here:
05-30-12 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yeti
05-23-12 Roman Holiday
05-16-12 Oh, What a Night
05-09-12 Totally Brutal
05-02-12 What's in a Name?
04-25-12 Surely, I cannot be this antisocial on an airplane
04-18-12 Declaring a War on War
04-11-12 Lost and Found
04-04-12 Wheel of Misfortune
03-28-12 Politics as Usual
03-21-12 Dressed to the Nines
03-14-12 My Hammy Vice
03-07-12 Baby Remember my Name
02-29-12 I Give Up
02-22-12 Ooohhh...That's Rich
02-15-12 The Real Oakton Cougar
02-08-12 Recommend this Column
02-01-12 Losin' It
01-25-12 Wa-la! It's the list you need irregardless of how skiddish it makes you
01-18-12 Going Strong
01-11-12 Behaving Judiciously
01-04-12 Baby Steps
12-28-11 It's the Most Difficult-to-Explain Time of the Year
12-21-11 Sleepwalking through Life
12-14-11 Tis the Season to be a Complete Narcissist
12-07-11 Do you see what I see?
11-30-11 We'll try anything once...well, almost anything
11-23-11 Giving thanks for the little things
11-16-11 Are you ready for something sorta like football?
11-09-11 Goal Celebrations have come a long way
11-02-11 Totally out of Character
10-26-11 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
10-19-11 At Home with Brutalism presents The Greatest Column Ever Sold*
10-12-11 It's a Small World after all
09-28-11 I Remembered our Anniversary
09-21-11 Adventures in Babysitting
09-14-11 Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
09-07-11 I Love the Rock and Roll
08-31-11 Crisis Mismanagement
08-24-11 Shaken to a Standstill
08-17-11 We're Number One! (+35)
08-10-11 What a Bunch of Hacks
08-03-11 Here She Comes Again
07-27-11 Shop-A-Phobia
07-20-11 Strange Bedfellows
07-13-11 I Wonder if I can save 50% on a Bankruptcy Attorney?
07-06-11 Medaling in My Affairs
06-29-11 Failure to Lunch
06-22-11 Give me an "M"
06-15-11 Some like it Flattering
06-08-11 Pre-packaged Jokes
06-01-11 It's Not the Heat...OK, It's the Heat
05-25-11 A Little Local Flavor
05-18-11 Partial Recall
05-11-11 Here's an Idea
05-04-11 Kathleen 2.0
04-27-11 On the Road Again
04-20-11 Battle of the Smithsonian
04-13-11 Mission Peeps Delivery: Accomplished (photo essay)
04-06-11 Closing in on Sweet Peeps Victory
03-30-11 TGIM
03-23-11 Won't you be my Neighbor?
03-16-11 Life is Great. I ought to get one.
03-09-11 He's the L to my OL
03-02-11 And the Oscar goes to...
02-23-11 What a Long, Strange Trip this could be
02-16-11 Sugar. Fudge. Darn. Heck.
02-09-11 Plugging Away
02-02-11 Playing Innocent
01-26-11 Wishing Well Fail
01-19-11 A Sleeper Hit
01-12-11 Lost in Translation
01-05-11 So Much Work Ahead
12-29-10 Traditionally Untraditional
12-22-10 Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
12-15-10 In the Holiday Spirits
12-08-10 The Ghosts of Christmases Past
12-01-10 Getting Schooled
11-24-10 Just like the Pilgrims
11-17-10 What a Trip
11-10-10 Can You Repeat That?
11-03-10 Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
10-27-10 Happy Halloweens
10-20-10 Mighty Neighborly
10-13-10 Single-minded
10-06-10 A Simple Solution
09-29-10 Lesson Learned
