humor Archives - Elsakurt

Elsa Kurt Interviews with Dr. Mary Mitchell

Where Intimidation Fails and Preparation Wins

Posted on December 22, 2025December 19, 2025 by Elsa Kurt

How Saved Letters, Tough Bosses, And Fierce Negotiations Forged An Unlikely Business Trailblazer The heart of this conversation is startlingly simple and deeply human: a daughter wrote two letters a...Read More

Elsa Kurt Interviews with Elizabeth Harris

What If Surrender Is The Shortest Road To Peace?

Posted on December 19, 2025December 19, 2025 by Elsa Kurt

The Elizabeth Harris Story GRIEF DOES NOT ASK PERMISSIONIt arrives, rearranges the furniture of the heart, and dares you to find your footing in a dark room. Our conversation with...Read More

Woman sitting alone on a bench in prayer, Bible beside her—symbolizing faith over therapy culture

Are We Too Obsessed with Mental Health? | A Christian Perspective

Posted on May 5, 2025May 7, 2025 by Elsa Kurt

Reclaiming resilience, responsibility, and biblical wisdom in a therapy-obsessed world. Somewhere along the line, mental health went from being something we manage to something we worship. What began as a...Read More

Childlike Riches: A Different Kind of Wealth

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Elsa Kurt

The Pine Tree Perspective: What Climbing to the Top Taught Me About True Riches Turns out, my childhood “wealth” wasn’t measured in money—it was something far better. And Jesus knew...Read More

Keep It Classy, Ladies

Posted on January 22, 2017January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

Keep It Classy, Ladies by Modern Melly People rarely say or do things to amaze me anymore. I hate to sound jaded, but it's true. They do, however, totally baffle me....Read More

12 People You Know (And Want to Slap Sometimes) On Facebook

Posted on September 28, 2016January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

12 People You Know (And Want To Slap Sometimes) On Facebook by ModernMelly We all know em, we all ARE them ( at one time or another, at least)...Read More

25 Priceless Texts Only Mom Could Write

Posted on May 5, 2016January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

25 Priceless Texts Only Mom Could Write BY NEHA PRAKASH MAY 09, 2013 With Mother's Day just around the corner, it's that time we appreciate all that Mom has done...Read More

Online Job Application: Police Wife

Posted on December 8, 2015January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

So I have to preface this post with an explanation: Last week my husband and I were having a difference of opinion- okay, fine, a bit of an argument really-...Read More

Thanks Mister

Posted on December 5, 2015January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

This morning when I woke up, I did the same first thing that I always do: I check my phone. More specifically, I check (in this order) my texts, my...Read More

Dear 44th Birthday

Posted on October 24, 2015January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

Dear 44th, Aww, hey, what's up? Listen, I just wanted to welcome you, and you know, try and make you feel a little less the 'outsider' here. I get how...Read More

12 Happy Pages For Social Media Addicts

Posted on September 30, 2015January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

12 Happy Pages For Social Media Addicts By Modern Melly Hello fellow social media addicts! Disclaimer: This is not a support group, nor will I try to persuade you...Read More

Dear Everyone Writing A ‘Dear____’ Blog

Posted on September 29, 2015January 3, 2019 by Elsa Kurt

Dear everyone and their mother that writes a blog, including me: STOP FUCKING WRITING 'DEAR (insert person type here)'. Enough already, we get it. Seriously. Dear children's costume company, stop...Read More

Top Internet Troll & Trash Talker Tactics

Posted on September 4, 2015April 4, 2021 by Elsa Kurt

Today's topic is:Internet Trolls and the Trash They Talk! We all know 'em, we all love...err, hate 'em! Ya can't live with them, and ya can't give 'em a little shove...Read More

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Ten Traits Sarcastic Women Share

Posted on July 11, 2015August 1, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

[caption id="attachment_1259" align="alignnone" width="300"] Sarcasm. modernmelly.me[/caption] Chronically sarcastic women are oft misunderstood, it a basic fact. Sometimes it's a literal "you-honestly-don't-get-sarcasm, do you?" kind of thing, and other times it's the...Read More

7 Ways To Get Super Powers

Posted on April 7, 2015June 1, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

Really? Did you really just click to see "7 Ways To Get Super Powers"?! Yeah, I would've, too. We can't help ourselves, can we? It's these damn "List Blogs". They...Read More

Help! Just Kidding, I’d Never Ask That

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

When Elton John sang, "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" he was, of course, right. It's true, I'm terrible at it and avoid having to say it as if...Read More

I’m Not Talking To You, I’m Talking To Me

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

We all do it. Don't deny it... we all talk to ourselves. Sometimes, we're the only one who listens, am I right?! (hardy-har-har, I know). It's totally normal, healthy even,...Read More

It’s Just My Face

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

*As I recall it, it was on a warm summer day in 1977, when I was first given a inkling that something was different, perhaps even wrong with me. I was but...Read More

If I Could Just Get Out Of My Own Way

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

Seriously. If I could just get out of my own way, I'd do just peachy. I'm meaning this in a most literal sense, but I briefly acknowledge that I also...Read More

Life Lessons I’ve Learned By Being A Police Wife

Posted on February 5, 2015March 31, 2021 by Elsa Kurt

My husband and I met over a dozen years ago, through a dating website. We both, come to find out, just wanted to try something out of our comfort zones,...Read More

Drinking and Blogging

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

Rule Number One: Don't Drink and Blog. I mean, that probably is a good rule, considering that your ability to filter your thoughts is as impaired as... well, as you...Read More

10 Songs I Hate, But Know Every Word To

Posted on January 27, 2015April 2, 2021 by Elsa Kurt

This morning I woke up, with no discernable reason, with the song Rainy Days and Mondays playing in in my head.Now, A) It's not Monday, it's Tuesday. B) It's not raining,...Read More

Mean Kinda Funny

Posted on January 24, 2015June 1, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

Some people seem to be born with that gene that makes them just simply know how to act right, behave, be cool. They tell appropriate jokes, they laugh normal... my humor? Well, let's say that it takes...Read More

Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever?!

Posted on December 4, 2014January 25, 2017 by Elsa Kurt

Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever?! By ModernMelly Heyyy. Sigh. So. I took an unplanned, unwanted month (plus) long hiatus from, well... everything, thanks to the flu, and subsequently pneumonia....Read More

Scattered

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Elsa Kurt

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="353"] Seriously. This is how I feel.[/caption] Yup. Scattered. That'd be the word for describing my brain activity yesterday, and so far (at 9:15am) the word of today, as well....Read More

I’m Just Here For The Comments

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Elsa Kurt

I have an amazing group of friends. I simply love each one of them, and what they bring to the group. Now, having said that, I've got to tell you:...Read More

My 42 Year Dramedy

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Elsa Kurt

Yup, here's me. Grown ass woman in pigtails and a Marvel tee, getting ready to get messy. Here's also where and when I come up with these random little blogs....Read More

Menopausal Mean Girls

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Elsa Kurt

One of the twenty seven projects I am currently (and simultaneously) working on, thank you ADD , is a storage bench in need of a seat cushion and some pretty...Read More

Poor Man’s Barbie

Posted on September 26, 2014May 30, 2015 by Elsa Kurt

So, I have this dear friend (the kind you could never stop being friends with because they know way too much dirt on you) that likes to give me Barbie...Read More

He Should Know Better

Posted on September 23, 2014April 4, 2021 by Elsa Kurt

Last night, while driving home from my full time job (Mary Poppins extraordinaire) my husband called with the all urgent request to not park behind him when I got home. I, of...Read More