Brian Thompson is a weekly humor columnist for The St. Augustine Record in Florida. He has won numerous awards for his column, including from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for humor writing, as well as multiple Florida Press Club awards for commentary.
“Life in a Nutshell” also resides here at www.nutshellcity.com.
The weekly column is about life. Headaches. Family. Kids. Dogs and living in a 100-year-old house.
It’s about the madness of life and all the oddities that come with it. It’s what goes right, and mainly what goes wrong. In a nutshell, it’s about universal stuff that anyone can relate to … and just about anything that provokes, or requires, a little laughter.
As Brian always says: “Laugh to keep from crying!”
He has been writing “Life in a Nutshell” since the early 1990s.
The column regularly appears in The Palm Beach Post, The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, FirstCoastNews.com (Jacksonville), The Palm Beach Daily News, The Gainesville Sun, The Ocala Star Banner, The Lakeland Ledger and the Leesburg Daily-Commercial. It has also been featured in radio commentary-form on 89.9 FM WJCT, the NPR-affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla.
A former journalist and editor, he now works at Flagler College in St. Augustine, where he also teachers journalism and advises the college’s award-winning online newspaper, The Gargoyle.
He has written for numerous publications over the years including Scholastic’s Parent and Child, Folio Weekly, Jacksonville Magazine, Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal, Rosebud, and Delicious Magazine.