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Mark Sherman, "The Kvetching Professor," is a Renaissance soul, a guy with so many interests that he
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Two Sides of Myself
I started “The Kvetching Professor” because I’ve always had two sides of myself vying for my attention. Well, it’s at least two sides. First, and starting when I was a child, there is my humor, which in my case is often kvetching. For those who don’t know, “kvetching” is a Yiddish word which kind of means to whine or complain. I mean, oy, do I have to really explain “kvetching” to people? (See, that was a kvetch, right there.)
And second is the “professor” part. School and education have always been important to me, and I kept going to school until I got my PhD at 26; and then I didn’t really leave school for another 28 years, since I taught psychology at a college for all that time. I’m also a songwriter-singer, specializing in humorous songs, and I’ve always had an enthusiastic audience for them.
While a professor, I started writing a humor column in the local paper, and have done that for nearly 35 years! When I read my columns out loud at a wonderful resort hotel, they went over great, so I figured, Why not do a podcast where I read them? So I did – and have now expanded that to include interviews and just letting my bizarre mind go its merry way as I talk.
My mission is to entertain and educate. My feeling is that a day without a laugh is like a savannah without a giraffe.
