Snoodles, Kidoodles, Poodles and Lots and Lots of Noodles PRESS RELEASE
Award-Winning Author Steven Joseph Releases New Children’s Book Readers Are Invited into a World Where Even the Crankiest Person Can Find Happiness For Immediate Release: Hoboken, New Jersey – Award-winning author Steven Joseph releases a new children’s book this May 3rd. Filled with outlandish humor and lively storytelling, Snoodles, Kidoodles, Poodles and Lots and Lots of […]
Spinning Your Wheel CrankaTsuris
Spinning Your Wheel CrankaTsuris is one form of CrankaTsuris that everybody experiences at one time or another. You start by setting the wheel in motion. After a while, you notice that the wheel is spinning faster and faster. However, you are not moving at all. You have convinced yourself that you are stuck in the […]
Cows Come Home CrankaTsuris
Cows Come Home CrankaTsuris typically occurs in a “couples” setting. One partner starts to argue with the other, but the other is not listening. In fact, the other responds with arguments of his or her own. Both sides want desperately to win the argument, and when they realize that they are not being heard, each […]
Dilly Dally Willy Nilly CrankaTsuris
Dilly Dally Willy Nilly CrankaTsuris is one of the more peculiar kinds of CrankaTsuris. This is because there are so many different variations of this CrankaTsuris. You can go only with a Dilly Dally, or a Willy Nilly, or you can combine the two to have a Dilly Dally Willy Nilly CrankaTsuris. Many couples can […]
CrankaTsuris Impatient
There are many different kinds of CrankaTsuris that can easily take hold of ourselves. Some can be easily dealt with. Others can be tricky, but many cures are available. However, probably one of the most difficult type of CrankaTsuris that we have all experienced is CrankaTsuris Impatience. The bus is late. When will this boring […]
Ax to Grind CrankaTsuris
Before I begin today’s lesson on Ax to Grind Crankatsuris, which happens to be one of the most dangerous kinds of CrankaTsuris, I would like to start with a Yiddish lesson describing four types of characters: Schlemiel. This is a Yiddish term meaning “incompetent person” or “fool”who always gets into unfortunate situations. Schmegeggi. A contemptible […]
Can’t Make This Stuff Up CrankaTsuris
Now that I am considered to be a writer, I continually get asked the same question over and over again: “Do you have a certain “rule of thumb” that you follow when you write?” I always have difficulty with giving an answer to that question. What does my thumb have anything to do with my […]
CrankaTsuris Marathon 2022 Fundraiser
Fifteen years ago, I ran the New York City Marathon to raise money for the Arthritis Foundation. My wife, Elena, grew up with juvenile arthritis, and ever since I knew her, she had been dealing with the condition heroically through dance and also, by creating other kinds of movement that allowed her to expand beyond […]
Kvetcher in the Rye CrankaTsuris
It is no doubt that a good meal and some good drink can be a certain cure to almost any CrankaTsuris. However, an unfortunate side effect of this cure is that when things go wrong at meal time, or the food is just plain bad, the result is an even worse CrankaTsuris. This is what […]
