Yesterday was a day full of connections, reminding me of the old saying that there are only six degrees of separation between any of us. Rea...

As a kid I never kicked and fussed when Mom took me to the grocery store, because it gave me a chance to stand near the magazine rack and pa...

Tonight Sally and I watched Spielberg's version of War Of The Worlds . I saw it last year during its theatrical release and was impress...

Today was a Utah state holiday, Pioneer Day, or as we know it around these here parts, the Days of '47. It commemorates the day in 1847 ...

Today, on a hot day in July, our granddaughter was baptized as Gabriela Uyen Nhu * Holman . We call her Gabby. Father Thuy and Daddy David a...

VINTAGE PAPERBACKS I hadn't heard of H. P. Lovecraft or Weird Tales before picking up these books off the stands in the 1960s. I just th...

Mickey Spillane is dead at age 88. I only have two Spillane books, both first editions: My Gun Is Quick , a Signet original from 1950, and T...

For years I worked with a guy I called Whispering Willie. When we were inside our building Willie spoke In a hushed whisper. He usually talk...

It's too hot. It's 104ºF outside today. It usually gets this hot in Salt Lake City on average about four or five days a summer, but ...

VINTAGE PAPERBACKS I found these books in a Powell's Books kiosk at the Portland, Oregon Airport in June, 2005, and they cost me a whopp...

The other day a local newspaper sports columnist wrote an article on Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the great Negro League baseball pitche...

For my recent birthday my buddy Dave sent me a couple of great books: The Pin-Up Art Of Bill Wenzel and the Pin-Up Art Of Dan DeCarlo . Both...

When did the term "Mickey Mouse," referring to something petty, ticky-tacky or rinky-dink, come into popular usage? As I recall fr...

I read once that in the paperback publishing world that romance sold the best, followed by Westerns. I don't have any romances because I...

Walking into a public school during the summer you're likely to encounter a lot of cleaning going on, and young people called sweepers, ...

We'd like to welcome Gabriela Uyen Nhu Holman to our family. She was born Friday, June 30. She weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces and measured 19...