The Dogs Yin and Yang: A short-short story

A Judgmental Dog: A short-short story

A Dog Sitter: A short-short story

A Lucky Dog: A short-short story

A Doggie's New Year's Resolutions

A Doggie Goes to the Cool Club on New Year's Eve: A short-short story

My Thoughts at the New Year

Top Dog: A short-short story about a political campaign

A Dog Named Yes and a Dog Named No

The Answerer: A short-short story

Baby Steps to a Better Relationship

Baby Steps to Career Contentment

Baby Steps to Getting Rich Enough

The World's Shortest Course in How to Live Wisely

The Barkery and Me: A short-short story in time for Christmas

Berkeley's Christmas Colors

Alan Dershowitz on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Warrior and "Wimp" at Christmas: A short-short story

What This Jew Feels This Christmas

What's a Not-Christian to Do at Christmas?

That Makes Sense: Practical advice on some of life's big decisions

Keyboard medley: Do You Hear What I Hear, Carol of the Bells, Drummer Boy

Gay's Gift: An essay on why Harvard President Claudine Gay should resign

The Snowman: A Parody of Today's DEI and Harvard's Claudine Gay's Admini...

Burned-Out at 20

I Overheard This Conversation About College

Truth Serum: A short-short story

The Fairies: A short-short story

Victor Davis Hanson on Harvard's President, Claudine Gay

A Boring Town: A short-short story

The Academy at the Crossroads: an essay by Heather MacDonald

Tenured Barbarians

Break-the-Rules Buddies: A short-short story

Drone: A short-short story

I'm Nice But Not Good: A fictional diary entry

Better Solo Than So-So

Toward Your Coming Up with A Big Idea You Want to Implement

Term Marriage: a thought experiment

A 30-Hour Workweek? A thought experiment

"Give Me an F. Give Me All F's. Expel Me for All I Care!" A thought expe...

A Secular Ascetic: A short-short story

Mini-runthrough of my upcoming holiday piano concert

I'm Nearly Overwhelmed

3 Holiday Short-Short Stories

Eating-Out Alone: A short-short story

The Cremator: A short-short story

Revolt of the 90-Year-Olds: A short-short story

"Sorry, I'm Not Santa:" A short-short story

The Sugar-Plum Fairy and Me: A short-short story

"Workers of the World, Unite!" A short-short story

Power Imbalance: A short-short story

Guilty Pleasures

I'm My Happiest Ever….at 80

Susie Sunshine: A short-short story

A Soft Target: A short-short story

A Catastrophizer: A short-short story

Unsaid at the Altar: Episode 3 of a 3-part series about a couple in college

The Getaway: Episode 2 of a 3-part series about a couple in college

The Final: Part 1 in a 3-Part Series on a College Couple

Gray: A short-short story

Giving Up: A short-short story

AltruGene: a short-short story aimed mainly at scientists and the people...

My Ten Best Ideas

At a Reunion with My Childhood Friend: Episode 3 of a series about an ol...

On a Walk With My Great Grandson: an episode in a 3-part series

On a Park Bench: Part 1 of a 3-part series about an old man

Give...and Give...and Give...Sigh

What to Say in Difficult Parenting Situations: Sample wordings

What to Say in Difficult Situations at Work

What to Say: Sample wordings for difficult situations in romance

A Mock First-Date Conversation: Example 2

A Mock First-Date Conversation (Example 1)

Before You Become a Climate Activist

Steve Jobs Debates Scrooge: a short-short story

The Funniest Things I've Ever Written

Amelia: A short-short story

What to ask other than" "What are you thankful for?" Toward good Thanks...

Snoozer: A children's story but not really

If Women Won't Date Men: A thought experiment

There Are No Jobs: Now what?

Alone on Thanksgiving: A short-short story

Beware of Dancing: A short-short story

A Vegan Who Craves Burger King

Staying Late: a short-short story

I Like to Read Children's Books: a fictional diary entry

"Changing Places:" A short-short story

The Eat the Rich Club: a short-short story

"I Have Low Sex Drive:" Part of a fictional diary series

Diary of an Average Man: On his 80th birthday

FREE, for the next few days, my new book of short-short stories: Secrets

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I'm Thorough Although Some Would Say Compulsive: a fictional diary entry

"I'm Insecure:" A fictional diary entry

"Why Do I Need to Know That?" An idea for education's reinvention

When I Couldn't Sleep: A short-short story

"I Stole a Lexus - They'll Never Catch Me"

"They'll Never Catch ME:" I Smashed a Speed Camera"

"They'll Never Catch ME:" An Elder Scammer

Behind Closed Doors: A fight about sex

Behind Closed Doors: A fight about family

Behind Closed Doors: a fight about time

My Recent Talk to CalTech Postdocs: Career advice for scientists

Behind Closed Doors, Episode 1: A fight about money

Diary of an Average Man, Age 20: part of a series of short-short fictions

Diary of an Average Man: Episode 1: Age 10

Diary of an Average Man: a short story. Installment 4: On his 90th birthday

Diary of an Average Man: A fictional short-short. Installment 3: Age 70

Diary of an Average Man: Installment 2: On his 50th birthday

Diary of An Average Man: A short-story story. Installment 1: His entry o...

A Desperate Author: A short-short story

A Slug Goes to Confession

A Final Confession: a short-short story

Joe Biden Goes to Confession: A fictional short-short story

Making and Keeping Good Friends

Donald Trump Goes to Confession: a fictional short-short story

A Dog Goes to Confession: A short-short story

An Inquisitor in the Confessional: a piece of flash fiction

A Spendaholic Goes to Confession: A secular sermonette

Your Extra Pounds: A secular sermonette

A Confession: a short-short story

Finding Your Mate: A secular sermonette

Maximizing Your Worth: A secular sermonette

Making and Keeping Good Friends

FREE for the next few days, my just-published book, Thought Experiments

In hopes of getting the book reviewed, Amazon is making FREE for a few days my just-published book, Thought Experiments: What-ifs to improve your life and society: https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Experiments-Marty-Nemko-ebook/dp/B0CLKY81KL

Convert Libraries into Community Hubs? A thought experiment

What if We Replaced Income Tax With Sales Tax? A thought experiment

Cancel Culture is Accelerating: A secular sermonette

Two Worlds: A sermonette

What If We Could Opt to Live Forever: A thought experiment

If Everyone Were Required to Wear a Uniform: a thought experiment

If All Workplaces Were Unionized: a thought experiment

If All Public Colleges Were Free? A thought experiment

What if Schools Didn't Give Grades? A thought experiment

What if There Were an "Intelligence Pill?" A thought experiment

Make All Recreational Drugs Illegal? A thought experiment

A World Without Ads? A thought experiment

Don't Elect; select. A thought experiment on reinventing how we choose o...

Higher Education without Colleges: A thought experiment

What if the Minimum Wage were $50 an hour? $0 an hour?

My Father's Story: a new and I believe best version

A Story Without Plot

My Father's Story: a new and I believe best version

What if There Were No Borders? A thought experiment

A World Without Religion: a thought experiment

Human Issues in a Scientist's Life

If Guns Were Outlawed: A thought experiment

A Jewish Boycott

A Template for a More Effective Talk

A World Without Schools: a thought experiment

A World Without Luxury: a thought experiment

A U.S. Without the GOP: an unlikely but plausible scenario

A World Without Israel: an unlikely but plausible scenario

Unreal: a series of short-short stories: Episode 4: Night of Nights

Unreal: A series of short-short stories. Episode 3: Viral

Unreal: Episode 2: Little Green Men

Unreal, Episode 1: I Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis

The Sabbatical: a short-short story

How Ph.D. Students and Postdocs Can Optimize Their Lives

On Dealing with a Tradesperson

On Acting

The Closed-Bag Talk: ideas for public speaking

How to Give a Private Performance

Halloween Tips for Adults

The Art of Making and Keeping Good Friends

Questions I Still Have

Why I Love Growing Roses

A Day in the Life of My Doggie

How I Lost 20 Pounds and Kept it Off: a short-short story

Kickin': a short-short story

The Not-Just-a-Business Cafe: a short-short story

"Let the River Run:" a short-short story

Career Advice for Post-Docs

On Public Speaking

Frank Worrell on the present and future of education

On Atheist Jews

FREE for a few days only, my new book, A Dose of Reality

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So You Want to Become an Academic Researcher

Mixed Feelings About Commonly Dispensed Personal-Growth Advice

Should I Go Back? a short-short story

A Motivational Speaker: a short-short story

Halfway: A short-short story

A Curious Locksmith: a short-short story

AI Rabbi: a short-short story

Taxed: a short-short story

If Only It Would Last: a short-short story

Why a Career in Basic Science?: A talk I just gave at MIT

60 and Looking for Love: A short-short story

It's Time: a short-short story

BFFs? A short-short story

I perform 8 of my 500+ short-short stories as an episode of my How to Do Life podcast

I perform my favorite 8 of my 500+ short-short stories as an episode of my How to Do Life podcast, available on Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-do-life/id1516676290 The'y're from my books, which all can be accessed on Amazon at this page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marty-Nemko/author/B001IQW864?ref=ap_rdr&store

While Studying...an essay, a short-short story, I'm not sure which

"We Are Monitoring Your Planet: An essay

Dream Doctor: a short-short story

My Basement Full of My Novel: A short-short story

"Handrails: Sources of support through life's journey.

Have You Changed?

Dark Stories for Adults--In time for Halloween

I read a bit from my ten most recent books and offer them to you free if you like

Three stories from my book, Starting-Out Stories

3 short-short stories from my book, Relationship Stories

3 Short-Short Stories from My Book, Work Stories

3 Short-Short Stories About Old People

A Confrontive Career Coach: a short-short story

I AM Going to Have the Baby: a short-short story

A Literary Agent Talks with a Client: A short-short story

A Student Talks Honestly with a Professor

An Ode to Seeds

My AI Advisor: A short-short story

Two Soldiers in a Foxhole: A short-short story

"NO Clowning!" A short-short story

A Midwife Talks with Her Intern: A short-short story

Two Doctors Talk: a short-short story

Two Opposite Personalities Talk: A short-short story

Two High School Senior Boys Talk: a short-short story

Two Doctors Talk: a short-short story

My Dangerous Hobby: a short-short story

Two Old Men Talk About Dying: A short-short story

What Matters: a short-short story

Jack and Jill: a short-short story

A Lazyperson's Guide to Growing Good-Enough Roses

Increasing the motivation of young scientists

Come to My Talk, Tonight?

I'll be giving a talk, based on my book How to Do Life https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Life-Advice-future/dp/B0BSD38PFV, at Owl & Company bookstore in Oakland, CA TONIGHT at 6:00 PM. Please join me.

In Search of Home: a short-short story

My Routines: Key to a productive and comfortable life

Lessons Learned from 10 Career Coaching Clients

How I'm Dealing with Aging

Report from an Unsuccessful Writer

My Best Book? How to Do Life

 Of my 27 books, I think most helpful is, How to Do Life: practical but not obvious advice on career, relationships, and more. I've priced it low ($8.00 paperback, $4.00 Kindle) so more people can hopefully benefit: https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Life-Advice-future-ebook/dp/B0BSD1L8Y1

"Should I Try Being Self-Employed?"

"I'm Stressed Out!" A Q&A

"I'm Disillusioned" A Q&A

"I'm Lazy" -- a Q&A

"I Don't Want to Be a Barista Forever, I Think"

"I'm Retired With Not Enough to Do"

My just-published book, Starting-Out Stories is FREE for the next few days

My just-published book, Starting-Out Stories is FREE for the next few days in hopes of getting reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Stories-Marty-Nemko-ebook
/dp/B0CF67BB4Z

In Praise of Unstructured Play

While I Can: a short-short story

"Should I Follow My Dad or Mom?" A short-short story

Fluffy: a short-short story

My Just-Published Book, Senior Stories is, for a few days, FREE

Senior Stories: the light and the dark of life's second half. That's my new book and for the next few days, it's FREE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDNKPQDG

A Scared Teen: a short-short story

FREE for a few days, my tiny book, My Commandments

FREE for the next few days, my tiny book, My Commandments, the best advice I give myself and others.

Six Months to Live: a short-short story

11: a short-short story

Fallen Fashion: A short-short story

Searching: a short-short story

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N: a short-short story

A Wonderful Passage from Madame Bovary

Guilty: a short-short story

Just Starting Out? My book on that is FREE for a few days

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On a Funeral: a short-short story

On the Gym

Killing MAGA: A short-short story

My book, How to Do Life is FREE for the next few days. I'd welcome your writing an honest review of it: https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Life-Advice-future/dp/B0BSD38PFV

A Dose of Reality: based on a true story

"You're a Big Sissy!" A short-short story

Identical Twins Raised Apart

I Am Resigned: an essay

A Realist Talks Money

A Realist Talks Romance

A Realist Talks Personal Growth/Education

Hermiting Together: a short-short story

A Realist: Career

FREE, my just-published books, Relationship Stories AND Work Stories

In hopes of getting reviews from readers, Amazon is making FREE through Weds, my two just-published books of short-short stories, perfect for bathroom sit-downs: Work Stories https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBTQJB8S and Relationship Stories https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBTPYJ64
 

Stories About Work

Relationship Stories

What I Wish I Did on My Summer Vacation

Grandpa's Beg: A short-short story

My new book, LIGHT, published today, is FREE through Weds.

My newest book was just published. It's Light: short-short stories on life's brighter side. In hopes of encouraging reviews, Amazon has made the Kindle version FREE through Weds at this link: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Stories-lifes-brighter-side-ebook/dp/B0CB9R5S81

A Magical Teacher: A short-short story

A Coffee Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Failed Novelist: a short-short story

Can An Honest Candidate Win? A short-short story

Cynical, Curmudgeonly Defintions by Ambrose Bierce

The Biggest Molecule: A short-short story

Twin Towers: A short-short story

"AI, Action Prohibited. Stop NOW!"

I Won't "Make the Most of My Looks:" a short-short story

A Lonely College President: a short-short story

Recipes from the IRS

Autumn Love: a short-short story

A Redistributor

Herding CATs

No Fuckin' Way: A short-short story

Expired: A short-short story

BeautEase Roses: a short-short story

Leo, Our Hero: A short-short story

Puff, The Sequel

Shooting a Hologram: a short-short story

The Hell With Hydrangeas: a short-short story

Paper Screen: A short-short story

Cheap Date: A short-short story

"Want a Hug?" a short-short story

My Doggie Talks to Me: a short-short story

A 50-Year Secretary, Oops, Admin

Puff Piece

Who to Save? A short-short story

An MD and His Starving Artist Child: a short-short story

The Seven-Fingered Pianist: a short-short story

Throwing the Book at Him: a short-short story

The Jokester Janitor: A short-short story

Astronaut or Homemaker: A short-short story

TODAY ONLY< Free kindle version of my new book, DARK: short-short stories of things we whsper about

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Buried Treasure: a short-short story

I'm Giving a Free Piano Concert this Saturday

I'll be giving a free, one-hour piano concert THIS Saturday, June 24, at 11 AM on the outdoor patio at the Caffe Teatro: 26 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA. Its theme: Songs of Summer-- from Summertime to Summer Samba to Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Hope to see you there.

Through Rose-Colored Glasses: A short-short story

Being a King is Overrated: a short-short story

In Search of the Secular Grail: a short-short story

I Call Myself an Artist: a short-short story

On a Wildflower

A Campaign Meeting (Una reunión de campaña)

My Name is Mordechai: a short-short story

Sideshow: a short-short story

7 Kisses: a short-short story

The Test: A short-short story

A Commute: a short-short story

Behind Doors, 1, 2, and 3: A short-short story

My Daughter is Getting Married: a short-short story

Silenced: a short-short story

An Offer I Should Have Refused: A short-short story

The Dinosaur: A short-short story

The Muffin Man: A short-short story

Teardown: a short-short story

At My Child's Little League Game: a short-short story

Automaton: a short-short story

Fired: a short-short story

Empty: A short-short story

My Hero: A short-short story

On a Mall

Coloring Inside the Lines: A short-short story

Lingering: A short-short story

Not Your Usual 50th Anniversary: A short-short story

Kisser: A short-short story

How God Came and Went: A short-short story

Postcards: A short-short story

My Imaginary Wife: A short-short story

My Oxygen Valve: A short-short story

The Meaning of Life From Right Field

Successful and Overwhelmed: A short-short story

Service Dog: A short-short story

Confessing at My Parents' Grave: A short-short story

Redistribution: A short-short story

Depressed: A short-short story

Down: A short-short story

Behind the Smile: A short-short story

Should I Pay the Ransom? A short-short story

Oy: A short-short story

A Smiler: A short-short story

A Few Hundred Years in Purgatory with My Wife -- No Biggie

Safe: A short-short story

Breaking Bread: A short-short story

A Shrink of Faith: a short-short story

How I Escaped From The Tower of London: A short-short story

Looking: A short-short story

A Loyal Gardener: A short-short story

The Broken Hearts Club: A short-short story

The Cynics Club: A short-short story

A Midlife Crisis: A short-short story

A Tagger Defends Graffiti: A short-short story

The Bellhop Who Wouldn't Accept Tips

Protest or Riot? A short-short story

The Garden Club: A short-short story

"I Wanted My Husband to Die: A short-short story

I Hid My Tesla: A short-short story

I Vomit: A short-short story

Senator Cruz: a short-short story

Secretly Rich: A short-short story

An Offer I Can't Refuse? A short-short story

Mousy: A short-short story

Hopeless: A short-short story

My Toupee: A short-short story

"The Bitch" a short-short story

A Sanitized Columnist: A short-short story

A Negotiation: a short-short story

An Obituary Writer Writes Her Own

"I Steal CATs and I'm Proud:" a short-short story

My Self-Portrait: A short-short story

It All Came Down to the Sex: A short-short story

Jealousy: A short-short story

Fighting Death: A short-short story

Rich Croissants: A short-short story

Swarms: A short-short story

Spoon: A short-short story

Faking It: A short-short story

Musing on What Matters: A short-short story

Odd Man Out, Episode 9: Mite

Odd Man Out: Episode 8: "I Did it For the Family!"

Odd Man Out, Episode 7: Living On

Odd Man Out, Episode 6: A ChatGPT Hallucination

The Combat Medic's Dilemma: A short-short story

Odd Man Out: Episode 5: Weed

Odd Man Out, Episode 4: Compost

How to Start a Business, for example, a cafe

My Fair Lady: Episode 3 of Odd Man Out, short-short stories

A Career Counselor's Take on Today's Work World

Odd Man Out: Episode 2: The Dorm

Odd Man Out: Episode 1: The Prom

Woody Allen One-Liners

Resigned: A short-short story

Reservations

Disinformation: A short-short story

My Approach to Health

How Smart Are You Regarding Money

How Good a Gardener are You: A quiz

Getting More Stuff Done: A self-assessment

Less Obvious Tips for Mentors and Mentees

My Earliest Musical Memories

6 Tips for the 60+.

Careers for Liberal Arts Graduates in the GPT Era

The Commencement Speech I'd Give

The favorite of my short-short stories

I'm Offering a Mini-Grant(s)

Ideas of Mine That I Hope You'll Remember

It Started With Their Trying to Steal My Catalytic Converter

Time-Tested: A solo piano album by Marty Nemko

 

A runthrough of Time-Tested, my forthcoming piano album.

My Very Best Ideas for You, For the World

On a Roller Coaster

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

How Honest Am I?

Upbeat Stories from my book, Soloists

The darkest stories in my new book, Soloists: stories of introverts and ...

Why Teens Are Getting Unhappier

Having Now Accepted that I'm Old

What This Morning's Client Says He Learned From Me

The Vanishing: The erasure of Jews from American life. By Jacob Savage.

Education Reinvented

Just published: the new edition of my book, Soloists: 234 short-short stories of introverts and outsiders facing a dilemma

Published today, the new edition of my book, Soloists: 234 short-short stories of introverts and outsiders facing a dilemma: https://www.amazon.com/Soloists-Short-short-stories-introverts-outsiders-ebook/dp/B0B1Z9S9YB/

Marriage Reinvented: The FlexAgreement

The Talk Reinvented

Hiring Reinvented

Secular Sainthood

My Favorite Things to Grow in the San Francisco Bay Area

To Market? A short-short story

Things I'm Unsure About

How A Worry-Wart Manages His Stress

Why I'm So Focused on Time

Bay Area Hypocrites

Do You Want to Be Less Long-Winded?

15 Ideas for Your Career and Your Life

The Media Marches Us: An original piano composition

A Different Ending: A short-short story

All-Star: A short-short story

Second Love: A short-short story

A Cautious Man: A short-short story

A Peacenik Who Shot Tires

Which Guy? A short-short story

My ChatGPT Harem

Not Everyone's Opinion is Worth Listening to, Let Alone Engaging With

Swirls: A short-short story

Why I Stand With Israel: An essay by former U.S. Secretary of Education,...

3 of My Short-Short Stories for Valentine's Day Plus 11 Other Favorites

Writer's Block: A short-short story

Facing the Enemy: A short-short story

The Reprieve: A short-short story

Fantasy Traffic School: A short-short story

Which Suicide Note Should I Leave? A short-short story

Finding Hope: A short-short story

Marc Andreessen on Reinventing Education

Ikebana Circle: A short-short story

A Storyteller: A short-short story

Funster Phil: A short-short story

Snippets: a short-short story

Steady Eddie: A short-short story

Wannabes: A short-short story

Why the Israel/Palestinian Conflict?

A Modern Odyssey: A short-short story

Gamble: A short-short story

A Confrontive Career Coach

Combatting Online Antisemitism: A presentation to the U.S. Congress

A Little Life: a short-short story

For a Million Dollars, Would You Stop Procrastinating? A short-short story

Dr. ChatGPT: a short-short story

Pi is an Irrational Number

The Collector: a short-short story

A Piano Lesson: A short-short story

Story Time: A short-short story

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: Excerpts of a short-short story by J...

Hopes: A short-short story

A Too-Honest Counselor: A short-short story

Opposites Attracting: A short-short story

Selling My Million-Dollar Business: A short-short story

Kansas to Vegas: A short-short story

Our Gladiators: Of Tiger Woods and those who play for our amusement (abr...

An Empty Nester: A short-short story

Pillow Talk: A short-short story from the next edition of my book, Soloi...

Hide: A short-short story from the next edition of my book, Soloists

Legs: A short-short story from my book, Soloists.

Cuddle: A short-short story

My new book, How to Do Life: Advice on life, work and the future is free, today only

 My new book, How to Do Life: Advice on life, work, and the future was published today. Today only, the Kindle version is free. I'd welcome your writing an honest review of it on Amazon. Here's the link to the book: https://smile.amazon.com/How-Do-Life-Advice-future-ebook/dp/B0BSD1L8Y1

Listening to Two Homeless People: A short-short story

Jews and Their Jokes By Joseph Epstein

Why in the World Did He Commit Suicide: A short-short story

Eliza Doomuch: A short-short story

An Exploding Balloon: A short-short story

The Last Conservative: A short-short story

I Never Stopped to Think: My true story

On An Old Man Seeing a Young Couple: A short-short story

How the World Ends and Begins Again: A short-short story

Some of My Favorite Short-Short Stories

Food Torture: A short-short story