Category: amuse

  • How Tumbleweeds Teach: Humor as Pedagogy

    If you’ve ever watched a tumbleweed roll down a Los Angeles street (not saying I have), you know one thing: it’s completely unconcerned about your deadlines. In previous posts, I’ve written about clouds with self-esteem, birds with impatience, roadrunners having bad hair days, and, yes, the occasional dragon who does yoga while accountants panic over…

  • Amuse: Past Life, Present Laughs

    I’m always amused when people say they knew someone in a past life. Really? Which one—when you were a cat with commitment issues and they were a dog who failed obedience school? Because that would explain so much.