Lemming , 2005, in French with English subtitles. Directed and co-written by Dominick Mol. Lemming is a movie that reminds me of the old cl...

It's Sally's birthday today. Happy birthday, Sal! Tonight we go out for dinner, but before we go, thought I'd share with you som...

One thing I've had to do in the past 16 years is form an uneasy alliance with computer technology. When Sally bought our first computer,...

My friend Eddie ran this picture of some very short people in his Chicken Fat blog. By coincidence just a few days before I had found a si...

Watching the disaster unfolding in Texas as the state kidnaps over 400 children and holds them hostage to some alleged phone call from an al...

I had Monday off as a vacation day, but some vacation it turned out to be: two hours in a dentist's chair. I've had problems with a ...

Sometimes I'm mistaken for other people. It happens often. The most recent was a couple of weeks ago. I was approached by a junior high ...

Sally and I walked in the annual Salt Lake City MS Walk on Saturday, April 12. I need to come right out and say we cheated. We waited until ...

Last night Sally and I had dinner at a local mall. It's always interesting to watch the passing parade of people at shopping malls. They...

In these days of contractors like Halliburton running parts of what used to be Army responsibilities, do soldiers even have KP anymore? When...

I live in a town just south of Salt Lake City, Utah. When I moved here in 1975 it was rural; there were 6,000 residents, and now there are o...

Bonnie is a secretary at one of the elementary schools I visit on my daily service route through the school district. She sits at the end of...

The years 1967 and 1968 in America were years of civil rights and anti-war demonstrations. Watching old film on TV of protestors being gass...

I heard the punchline many times to the great VIP cartoon on top: "You salute the uniform, not the man." Uh-huh. If you can see th...

The first sergeant, the one we called Coke Bottles because of his thick glasses, called me into his office. "I want you to take these d...

First night in the barracks. December 2, 1966, Fort Lewis, Washington. We were 60 men, ages 17-26, but most in the 19-20 age group. The maj...

My friend Eddie, retired from the Postal Service, has a scheme to make money on his Chicken Fat Blog. In the meantime, I, still not retire...

When did Mickey Mouse, the cartoon character, become "Mickey Mouse," the rinky-dink and petty? If someone now says, "That...