Stories and theater reviews celebrate life. From the laxative effects of diet green tea, a vendetta at a ski resort, skin cancer from sunbathing, bedbugs, an alcoholic relapse on a date, to time travel, this book pulls no punches. Theater reviews describe plays of the Irish Civil War, a zany family, a con artist, a writer in a trailer park, a soldier in Iraq, a prostitute as savior, and Scrooge.