Dave Barry

Today's culinary topic is: How to Light a Charcoal Fire. Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors,...

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TO THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1995: I am especially pleased to be addressing you, the Class of 1995, because it just so happens that I graduated from...

Parents, school is almost out, which means it's time to make those summer vacation plans, load up the family car and take off, quickly, before the kids get home. I...

Before I get to this week's topic, which is gopher safety, I wish to "set the record straight" regarding three matters: 1. EXPLODING GUAM SNEAKER-Some months ago I discussed an...

I found out about laser tag from a guy I know named Woody. Woody is in public relations, despite the fact that he looks likeand I say this as a...

This topic was suggested by a letter from John Cog of Norfolk, Va. Here's the entire text: "How come when I'm standing in front of a full-length mirror with nothing...

If you were to ask me how I came to set my toilet on fire, I would answer you in two simple words: Reader's Digest. I am referring specifically to...

It's a gloriously sunny day in Miami, and I'm standing in a semicircle of maybe 500 people on a carpet of lush, sweet-smelling, green-glinting grass, the kind that makes you...

Our topic for today is "The Mexican Peso Crisis-An Ominous Harbinger of Global Monetary Instability, or What?" In evaluating the implications of any significant currency fluctuation, it is essential to...

I travel a lot throughout this great land of ours, and everywhere I go, in these politically uncertain times, people ask me the same question. "Excuse me," they say. "Are...