“Bah!” said Scrooge, “humbug!” THE SUN beat down on Jason’s bald spot, and what had been a pleasant basking in an unseasonable, late-November sun was … Read More ›
Category: The Boxwooder
“Now, at this moment, it looks as though the explanation is…. If anyone has a better explanation, I’d like to know it so I could … Read More ›
by G. T. Kohman SPOKEN LIKE A RESEARCH SCIENTIST “When I took this job, I thought I knew it all,” said coach John Thompson. “After … Read More ›
Note for non-NAPA Readers: This is a shop-talk issue, the only one during 1976. Please come back next month. There’s something fascinating about the picture … Read More ›
Memory is a complicated and stubborn mechanism. – “Toy Village,” Seymour Epstein. THE TRAFFIC LIGHT flicked to yellow as he approached the suburban intersection of … Read More ›
THE LIEUTENANT scraped his wet forehead with his finger and flicked the sweat to the floor. “Oh, that idiot Captain,” he thought. “If I’d wanted … Read More ›
Acknowledgment: Birthday cakes were drawn by Bill Boys. USA “One of the great things about our nation is we can do so many things wrong … Read More ›
Overheard in a bar:“There were four of us, but we all died as children.” The Award “TODAY,” said Joseph Isaacs, Vice-President in Charge of Design, … Read More ›
I read and reread the newspaper clipping my mother had sent from my hometown paper and heard that question echoing down the long corridors of … Read More ›
“ReminisceSpeak derives its ego-boosting excuse in the very act of reminiscing. We relive moments, or recall facts in a nostalgic manner, in order to step … Read More ›