Pastafarians Unite!
by Madeleine Kando In Austria a man by the name of Nico Alm was granted a driver's license with a pasta strainer on his head in his lice...
Some Random Thoughts on Happiness
by Madeleine Kando When someone asks me 'Are you happy?', I never know what to say. It puts me on the defensive. It's like havin...
Playing With Words
By Tom Kando To be human is, above all, to name things. Other things have been mentioned as our defining feature - the opposing thumb, our l...
How to entertain - and not entertain - foreign guests
by Tom Kando and Anita Kando As European-Americans, we have hosted European visitors to America innumerable times, and we have also been ho...
The History of Food Revealed
by Madeleine Kando A 1999 BBC series on the origins of pornography inspired me to write a spoof. Rather than take sex as the subject howeve...
Tom Tom
By Tom Kando I just spent a month in Europe, mostly visiting my 98-year old mother who lives an hour North of Amsterdam, and helping her wit...
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
by Madeleine Kando I heard on the news the other day that 'walking six miles a day might improve memory in the elderly'. Because t...
Delayed Gratification
by Madeleine Kando I am not very good at delayed gratification. When I wake up in the morning, half dead, I cannot wait for my first cup of ...
Swimming
by Madeleine Kando When I first joined my health club, I thought: 'Oh, now I can meet lots of people, why else would it be called a '...
Mismatch
by Madeleine Kando The meaning of ‘mismatch is when two objects or people do not go together. A “mismatch” is when something fits like ‘a sq...
Twins
by Madeleine Kando My twin sister lives on the Costa del Sol. She lives in a house the size of the tool shed in my backyard. When I skype ...
One-Upmanship
by Madeleine Kando I went to see my doctor today. I made sure to dress in my best suit, put on my most expensive perfume and, in general, lo...
The Comforts of Flying
by Madeleine Kando There was a time in my life when I used to get a thrill out of flying. After all, it is an event that comes closest to wh...
Decisions, decisions
by Madeleine Kando Ever since I can remember I have had difficulty making decisions. It started already when I was ten years old. I had to c...
Some Random Thoughts on Language
by Madeleine Kando My husband has difficulty pronouncing English words sometimes. He is originally from The Netherlands. When we visited a p...
What If..
by Madeleine Kando I lost my favorite pair of sunglasses. The ones I bought in Paris for a hundred euros during a bout of temporary insanity...