Has anybody here seen my old friend Saddam? Can you tell me where he's gone? I thought I saw him walking Up over the hill, With Jerry F...

ME RR Y CHRI S TMA S 2 00 6 ! I found this picture on a soldier's blog. Sorry for appropriating it, guys, but I want to use you to make...

Comcast Cable's On Demand is showing the 1956 science fiction movie Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers on its Free Movies section. I'd ...

Mom asked me, "So what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?" My answer was immediate. "I want a Superman suit!"...

Brian Williams, of NBC Nightly News, ran a report tonight on Baby Boomers and their love of the music of their youth. Well, naturally. Every...

A year ago today I was driving home from work, slammed into the car ahead of me, totaled my pickup truck, then laid on my couch for six week...

Sally and I were talking about some people we worked with in the 1970s. Laura Jo worked with Sally. She was a woman in her early twenties, a...

For the past five days Salt Lake City has been helpless in the throes of one of our winter inversions. A high pressure systems sits over us,...

Only about three weeks until Christmas, so I guess it's time to break out the BAH, HUMBUG! badge I wear on my coat during the season. As...

I thought about this anniversary several weeks ago, reluctant to believe it could be that long ago. I'm not that old, am I? As mind-bog...

I don't pay a lot of attention to business news. It bores me. But I keep hearing about something called Black Friday. Over 30 years ago ...

Number two of the eating holidays is over, with one more to go.* Thanksgiving is a nice day to be with family, have great food, but yesterda...

Friday night Sally and I were eating dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant when we were approached by a retired secretary, someone we...

My friend dropped me a note last night that said, "Great concert. They've still got it." She was referring to The Who, who pla...

One of our stops in San Francisco last week was the Columbarium, where ashes of the dead sit in windowed vaults. Over a century ago San Fran...

Today is Veteran's Day, also the 38th anniversary of the day I became a veteran. I was discharged on Veteran's Day, November 11, 196...

There are several artworks on the Albany Bulb constructed from landfill materials left behind. It's all striking in its originality, bu...

We just got back from our California trip, visiting friends near Berkeley, at their home in Albany. Dave and Karen took us for a walking tou...

Did you get through Halloween all right? We did. The trick or treating didn't start until 7:00 p.m., which is late for our local kids. W...