Here is yet another Monday morning, and yet another attempt to haul my tired ass out of bed, pour myself into my car, get myself to work. So...

I've been reading some of the modern paperbound reprints of the Little Lulu comic books of the 1950s. I enjoyed this comic in the '5...

Does this look like a headless guy blowing snow? It does to me. I keep looking at it and thinking of "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow....

My wife's father died in 2002. She told me a few months ago she'd had a dream about him. She also told me, "I believe dead peop...

Bill Bryson, like the subject of his biography, Shakespeare The World A Stage , is a writer of great skill. You want to take every sentence,...

It's Super Tuesday, folks. Time to get out, get off our lazy carcasses and start making a difference. I don't have to, since I'v...

I don't know about God's wrath, but I sure do know about Mother Nature's...the snow the past week has been relentless, and the w...

A newspaper article from last Sunday at least partially answered a question I've had for several years: If lead is bad for the human bra...

Toothache. I don't get many of those, but I've had this one since Friday night. I've been lying around with a heating pad on my ...

Every day in this freezing weather makes me more and more aware of advancing age. Moan. Groan. But, everyone gets old. Well, except for my c...

And here I thought I had a good item for a blog entry. Sally is reading Gene Wilder's 2005 autobiography, Kiss Me Like A Stranger . She ...

A beautiful young blonde woman boards a plane to LA with a ticket for the coach section. She looks at the seats in coach and then looks ahea...

Today we woke up to snow. Lots of snow! Copious amounts of snow. Tons, gobs; we were whomped. Sally and I went out about 9:00 and shoveled o...

Friday I stopped at a bakery on my route. I don't often stop there, only about once every two months. I love their lemon scones, and so...

Thursday night Sally and I watched a show about Rachael Ray on E! cable network. Ray is a TV personality with an uptempo style that can get ...

Man, it has been cold lately. It's about 12 degrees F. this morning. I guess you northerners, folks in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Cana...

I hate Wal-Mart. I really do. I hate that the goods they sell are cheaper than anyplace else around so I more-or-less feel obligated to save...

My wife, Sally, spent yesterday with her friend Kris in a late--way late--Christmas celebration. When Kris and Sally get together I know I w...

It's 2008 already. Weren't we just worrying about Y2K and the crash of civilizations when computers went bonkers on January 1, 2000?...

"I coulda been a contender..." "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." "He hit me wit' his t'underbolt!...