Mike published over 1,000 bylines during his time at the Palm Coast and Ormond Beach Observer newspapers, 2011-2014. He returned to the Observer as a contributing writer in 2023.
A sampling from his humor column is included below:
- Deconstructing ‘Frasier,’ grief and home-buying
- An age of empires and innocence
- Paddling hard through quicksand
- The secrets we keep underneath our Halloween disguises
- We didn’t start the fire
- He who casts the first pizza stone
- All jacked up on fine dining
- The ballad of Old Green Thunder
- The itsy, bitsy spider, and 500 of his friends
- Pumpkin spice, and other atrocities
- Tips for planning the perfect reunion
- If I won the Powerball
- Holy smokes: No cause for alarm
- Booming, bright, beautiful thunder
- Life in the golden age of journalism
- Holi-daze: I pity the April fool
- The early bird gets left alone
- Sensory overload: Put a sock in it
- Resolved: new year, no expectations
- Hang ’em high: the perils of Christmas lights
- Hit me again, barkeep, and again, and again
- The king of Bicycletoberfest
- Only sure things: death and tuxes
- Pennywise tips for V-day wooing
- Growing up? ‘Skate’ it ain’t so!
- Swatch and learn: Color me flustered
- And throw in something called a ‘bean sprout’
- Every day’s a bad hair day
- Beware of goblins, ghouls and grownups
- Chef Cavaliere: Currently accepting smooches
- Goodbye, Blockbuster
- My inner mafioso
- Relax, grads: Your ‘real world’ consultant is in
- In which I survived the Hot Yoga Lounge … barely
- Parked at Panera, tailgating the future
- You can go home again
- Make like a commissioner and budget
- Rent is a four-letter word
- New look, same great taste!
- It’s beginning to look a lot like homework
- Carol a mean tune, kid
- Up in smoke: The tale of the $50 cigar
- Halloween party-prowling: ‘I got a rock’
- Welcome to the gun show
- Two outta 12 ain’t bad
- All dressed up with nowhere to go
- Psychic fair: My first reading
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