“From the page to the stage, Aaron Karo’s insights into the twentysomething mind have secured his place as the irreverent voice of a generation.”

Hello and welcome to my site! My name is Aaron Karo (pronounced KAY-ro) and I founded Ruminations.com in August 2008. This is my story.

In 1997, as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, I sent a funny email to twenty of my buddies from high school. That email spawned a regular “email column” entitled Ruminations that, through forwarding and word-of-mouth, soon attracted readers nationwide.

Simon & Schuster published compilations of the column in my two books, Ruminations on College Life and Ruminations on Twentysomething Life.

After a brief detour on Wall Street, I began performing stand-up in 2002. Thanks to my amazing fans, I now headline sold out shows at theaters across the country.

In 2005, I moved from New York City to Los Angeles to write sitcoms, perform stand-up, and touch fake breasts.

In August 2008, I launched Ruminations.com to enable my fans to write their own ruminations and share them with the world.  Later that month, I performed on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS.  And in December 2008, Comedy Central Records released my all-new stand-up album, Just Go Talk to Her.

More than eleven years after I started writing, I continue to email out Ruminations every other Monday. What began with twenty friends has now been read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

I hope you enjoy my site and please contact me if you have any questions or comments!

Click here to view my complete column archive dating back to 1997!