While on my mail delivery route Friday I stopped at a bakery for a scone and coffee. I was the only customer except for a teenage girl sitti...

It's been a hectic week, and it's only Wednesday. Yesterday I had the rotors on my 2005 Ford Escape machined because the fronts were...

Is civil discourse dead? Of course not. Even in this most heated political season the candidates seem to be trying to hold on to some civili...

Sally orders Netflix movies online. She has such interesting taste in movies. She is always looking for something beyond the big hits. The o...

In the early '80s when both music videos and VCRs were new, I used to tape some of the music video programs that played on late night br...

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Going through an old filing cabinet of mine I found this clipping from a 1992 newspaper. It's about my former coworker, Warren, and the ...

The Five Satins were one of those vanguard groups of rock music, coming along with a doo-wop classic, "In the Still of the Night."...

My wife, Sally, has been in Pennsylvania since last Wednesday, staying with our son, David and his family. I mean extended family. David is ...

This morning I'm home. I turned on the Today Show to hear Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary, explain why he is dissin...

My friend Karswell sent me this video teaser for a new Internet movie that is coming to a computer monitor near you. Intriguing teaser, wot?...

Like more than a few other people I watched the finale this week of American Idol , the only actual time I've watched the program from b...

Yesterday, a clear spring day, we said our final goodbyes to our mom. My brother and I both spoke; it was a short service, conducted at the ...

Mom at the Acropolis in Greece, 1969. My brother called me just after noon yesterday, telling me that the nursing home had called him: Mom w...

Normally I wouldn't discuss something so personal, but we're all friends here, right? Yesterday I went to a new dermatologist. I try...

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...