Sharon Burton


Stories by Sharon Burton

I Smoke, Therefore I Am

By the time you read this, I'll probably be dead.

Author Sharon Burton Date 01/24/2008
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.

Author Sharon Burton Date 07/13/2007
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"

Author Sharon Burton Date 03/15/2007
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

Author Sharon Burton Date 02/02/2007
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.

Author Sharon Burton Date 12/14/2006