Sharon Burton
Stories by Sharon Burton
I Smoke, Therefore I Am
By the time you read this, I'll probably be dead.
Best of IE
No matter what age group or nationality, sex or religion, clique, crew or club, IE residents have one common bond: We love to be entertained.
Train in Vain
tuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 91 for the eighth time in four days, I passed the time by working out the physics of running myself over with my own car.
The Happy Hookah
As a cultural anthropologist, I strongly believe in the concept of cultural relativism--the idea that no culture is "better" than any other culture. While it's true you can't compare the "better-ness"
Death by Panang!
When I was an unhappy Army wife in Naples, Italy, we lived in a small, privately owned apartment building with a landlord who never missed a chance to feel me up
GO STUFF YOURSELF!
My second husband hated curry spices and anything that looked like curry spices, so we never ate Indian food. For this--and so many other reasons--my second husband was an idiot.