Jeffrey L Cohen

Jeffrey L Cohen

One Banana

How does a single banana wind up on the side of the road. Not a banana peel and not the inside fruit, but a whole, unpeeled banana. Did a kid throw it out

Dystopian Present

We always talk about the dystopian future, but what do you call it when you are living through it? The day that Skynet becomes sentient and takes over is the beginning of the

Doing It 100 Times

By some quirk of fate, 100 days ago I started doing not just one thing every day, but two things. Neither of them were intentional decisions to do it for 100 days straight

Hello CD Listeners

In 1989 Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever. This was still in the transition days from cassettes to CDs. Albums still existed, but they were sliding fast. Mr Petty acknowledged this change with

Written versus Spoken Language

There is an entire generation who uses the word “like” as an interrupt word similar to um and uh. Speakers train themselves to pause instead of using these words. My daughter was saying