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Pressing Pause for a Moment of Silence
By Anne Lutz Zacharias Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Last week, men around the world found their unifying cause. World peace? No. Nuclear proliferation? Not that either. They set aside their...
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Capitol Crimes
By John McCabe Washington, DC Editor’s Note: When John McCabe e-mailed me, wondering if I ‘d like to publish an excerpt from his book about his son’s vomiting problem on a family trip to Washington,...
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The Thirsty Games: How I Barely Survived BeerFest Asia
By Dave Fox Singapore One of the things I like about being a humor writer is that beer festival organizers will give me complimentary tickets to their events. I don’t mean to gloat, but I am guessing...
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My Husband’s Other Wife
By Joan Lindsay Kerr Kilauea, Hawaii Rob was lured from my side by the come-hither gaze of a flamboyant platinum bombshell brazenly batting her large dark eyes from across the square. He and I were...
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The Globejotting Survey: Answer Questions, Win Free Books!
Hi! It’s me, Dave Fox, in Singapore! After a summer writing blitz around Southeast Asia, I’ll be shifting gears soon and developing some new products. But I’ve been doing a little too much...
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Sex and Candy! (Happy National Night, Singapore!)
By Dave Fox Singapore August 9, 2012 It’s Singapore’s 47th birthday today, which means all good Singaporeans will be celebrating with parades, fireworks, and hot, sweaty, Mentos-gobbling sexual...
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Disoriented: A Shopping Fail in Shenzhen
By Kathryn Schipper Shenzhen, China Modern Hong Kong (above) is famous for its shopping. But if you can’t find enough bragains there, the “Special Economic Zone” of Shenzhen, China, is a short train...
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A Tale of Two Weekends – Part One
Salsa Dancing for Giraffes and Other Dumb Ideas By Dave Fox Singapore Saturday is going well – until Juliet suggests we go salsa dancing. I have nothing against salsa dancing. I just don’t like it...
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The Most Overused Cliché in Travel Writing
By Dave Fox Singapore (Land of Contrasts) Travel writing is full of clichés – from “friendly locals” to “must-see sights,” from “exotic flavors” to “unspoiled nature.” But the Mother of All Travel...
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A Tale of Two Weekends – Part Two
Singapore’s Irish Music Famine By Dave Fox Singapore In our previous episode, our hero (me) was brainwashed by his evil friend, Juliet, and his evil wife, Kattina, into taking his first ever evil...
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Don’t Pee in the Bidet
And Other Lessons Learned in France By Debbie Simorte Cahuzac-sur-Vère, France I married a Frenchman, and when our daughter was five weeks old he took us to meet the family. If you are planning a trip...
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Ten Tips on How to Write a Ten-Tip or Top-Ten List
By Dave Fox Singapore Short attention spans are all the rage right now. People don’t have time to digest useful information. We need bullet points, top-ten lists, pithy factoids we can read to feel...
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Unfriending Anti-Social Media
Justin Bieber can have my pizza, but leave my Facebook page alone! By Dave Fox Singapore I was feeling a little insecure last weekend. To improve my mood, I posted this social experiment on my...
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Hubby’s Gifts Take the Cake
By Lynne Paris-Purtle New Fairfield, Connecticut [Editor's Note: Lynne wrote this humor column for Dave Fox's online humor writing workshop. Dave wrote about her story in his article two days ago:...
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The Great Pumpkin Car Caper
By Debbie Simorte Raytown, Missouri I had recently proven myself a tooth fairy failure and killed six goldfish. I couldn’t blow Halloween. But with two days to go, my kid had no pumpkin. I needed to...
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Happy Thanksgili!
By Dave Fox Singapore (Headed to the Gili Islands in Indonesia) It’s Thanksgiving tomorrow in the United States. To celebrate, I will be partaking in the classic American pastime of traveling to a...
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Indonesia’s Gili Islands: A Quiet Kind of Rush Hour
By Dave Fox Gili Trawangan, Indonesia I would like to apologize for some misinformation on this website last week. My wife, who shall remain anonymous, mistakenly told me that in the Gili Islands,...
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Welcome to 2013: The Year of the Big Box
(What I Did On My Winter Vacation – Part One) By Dave Fox Somewhere in America Wow man… 20,732 flight miles logged; from Singapore to Tokyo to San Francisco, to Washington, DC, to Seattle, to Denver,...
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Happy Hours, Emergency Landings, and Fun with Battery Acid
What I Did On My Winter Vacation – Part Two By Dave Fox Still Mostly Somewhere in America (Continued from yesterday.) Sven Wondermoose quaffs a Belgian ale at the Seattle happy hour. On January 3,...
View Article100 Hours of Humo(u)r – Hour 1: Opening Ceremonies with Dave Fox
By Dave Fox Singapore Welcome to the “100 Hours of Humo(u)r” global online party on Globejotting.com! It’s 10 p.m. here in Singapore and we kick things off with my sleep-deprived opening video...
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