Gender	Male
Occupation	Freelance writer and author
Location	Stamford, CT, United States
Introduction	I prefer to think of myself as a great thinker, a brilliant mind of my generation, but as soon as you type your thoughts, they label you a "writer," so OK I'm a writer! When I do write, I have: * Been a weekly humor columnist for The (Stamford) Advocate and Greenwich Time * Had my weekly columns on the L.A. Times Syndicate * Been a regular contributor to the Palm Beach Post * Had freelance and Op-Ed columns published in The Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, L.A. Times, The Detroit News and probably your grandmother's beloved weekly newspaper * Was weekly columnist for Tout Wars (experts fantasy baseball league) * Contributed to ESPN The Magazine (My byline was not TOM The Writer)
Interests	Intellect, humor, intellectual humor, sports, reading, cooking, sleeping, a fair competition that involves little to not athletic ability
Favorite movies	Crash, Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mystic River
Favorite music	Tom Petty, U2, Genesis, G-Love and Special Sauce, Carbon Leaf
Favorite books	To Kill a Mockingbird, A Time to Kill, Homicide, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:

Why is there no other word for thesaurus?