You know you’ve been in a hotel a long time when you start making your own bed. You know you’ve been in a hotel a really long time when Michael, the creepy morning room-service guy, notices you’ve changed your order. “I see you’ve got bacon this morning,” he says, making me shudder. “You are really going to like it.” Yesterday, he complimented my pill box.
I’ve spent 13 nights in the University of Dayton Marriott as one of two 2018 Humorists-in-Residence. […]

I love languages, I have since I was in 6th Grade where I had my first brush with Spanish. Took a little German in college, and over the years have learned salutations in over a dozen languages. The Filipina caregivers are very impressed with my ten words of Tagalog as was my Egyptian coworker when I wrote my name in Arabic.
Unfortunately, my children are monolingual, and I’m not too sure its English they speak. […]

If I have learned anything since becoming a grandfather, aside from the fact that diaper bags can be a great way to pull jokes on unsuspecting strangers, it is that time flies when you’re having grandkids.
As proof of just how fast life whizzes past, my grandson, Xavier, recently celebrated his first birthday. My granddaughter Chloe just turned 5. And her little sister, Lilly, isn’t so little anymore because she’s a year and a half old. […]

Karen Chee and Samantha Schoech, winners of an unconventional two-week residency for emerging humor writers, ventured out of their hotel rooms to offer some serious advice to students in a media writing class at the University of Dayton.
“Being funny is not trying to be funny. It’s being observant,” Schoech, a writer and editor from San Francisco, told students in Mary McCarty’s class.
“I was looking out my hotel room window, and I saw something glowing in the distance. […]