Jeff Namian

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So You Think You Can Teach

I signed up with an agency a few years ago to be a substitute teacher. It’s pretty easy to manage. You go online the night before and see who’s out...

Political Profiling

I'm visiting my better half in Houston for a few weeks.  I don't hate it, it being Texas.  But I can't stop staring at people to weigh who they...

Me, Myself and I

Me:  Table for one, please. Them:  Would you like the counter instead? Me:  No I'd like a table for one. Them:  No waiting for the counter.  Twenty...

Medi-cares

Do they?  They're mostly pests that feed on older people's vulnerability. Their flash cards include words like copay, tier one or two drugs,...

Pontius Pilate

Who the hell is he?  His name only comes up around this time of year. Every Spring somebody ascends and sitteth next to Pontius Pilate.   And why is...

Patience

The older I get the less I have of it and the tiniest things rev my engine.  Like just this morning.  I was hungry and weighed all the morning...

A Delicate Balance

Penned by Edward Albee circa 1965.   Premiered in 1966.   Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967.   The first of three Pulitzer Prizes for Edward...

Elevator Etiquette

The elevator opens on the seventeenth floor and somebody enters.  First I calculate the amount of time it'll take to hit the lobby level.  Do I...

Wire Management

I'm sure everyone struggles with organizing all the cables and wires it takes to navigate this modern world.  There's the cable box wire, the wifi...

Idiot

So we moved into Philadelphia one year ago today.  After closing on our new house, we took a getting to know you trip around the city.  Well the...

First Impressions

First impressions. There's notoriously so much emphasis put on its importance.  Seems to be a narrow view of a person, compared to two weeks in solitary confinement.  So are we still doing this?  Do we really know who you're hiring based on the traditional interview?...

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Summer Olympics

2024 OPENING CEREMONY TICKETS STARTING AT €9,500 So it's unlikely I'll be attending.  I could take a loan out and use the house as collateral.   Just seems a bit ... um what's the word ... extravagant.   That's over $10,000 for us ugly Americans.  And it's in Paris, a...

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Sweep It Under The Rug

Sweep it under the rug means to conceal or ignore an issue rather than confronting it.  Everybody does it.   Taxes and Trump.  Sweep it under the rug.  Not the one on his head, and not the one in his secret documents room. My mother used to sweep it under the rug when...

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Jeff Namian

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Philadelphia, Pa

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