When I want to switch off my brain I pick up a mystery novel. I don't have any real favorites, and I've read across a broad spectrum...

This past January I got the news I'd been dreading. I had prostate cancer. My wife and I sat in front of the urologist's desk while ...

(You know how it works. Click on the picture to see it full size.) A future-past is a term I use to indicate a one-time vision of the futur...

I heard today that Disney bought up Marvel Entertainment, which includes the Spider-Man franchise. I don't think we'll be seeing mou...

In past entries to this blog I've mentioned adult women having sex with underage boys, and I've mentioned adult men, mostly teachers...

I heard the words, "Honey, wake up." I jolted awake, sat up. I was on the couch, and according to the cable TV box, it was 2:30 a....

We got close to the door of the Mexican restaurant when a young woman with a handful of paper came up to us. "Are you guys going into R...

Every once in a while I haul out some books and put them up for bid on eBay. I've been doing eBay business off and on--mostly off for th...

Sally and I drove to Bountiful, Utah, last night to say goodbye to our old coworker, Rand. Rand died on Thursday when his wife decided he...

Tuesday I looked online at my public library account. I use the library a lot. It's a good idea to make sure I'm current, don't ...

Click on the above so you can see how bad bad really is. When you read an article like the one above a certain sense of disbelief sets in. ...

On Demand shows some of HBO's late night specials. I watched Pornucopia 2 the other day. Filmed in 2004, it covers the field of pornogr...

A television columnist for my local newspaper told of hearing John Landgraf, president of FX Network, speak of the famous f-word. He said th...

We've been talking lately here at Insomnia Notebook about female teachers putting their hooks into young boys. But statistically 90% of...

The other day I asked if other states had the problem of female teachers having sex with underage males and sure enough, it seems to be happ...

Sally and I have been exercise walking since 1987. The best walks we ever took were up a steep hill and around Alta View Hospital, just a qu...

Sunday night I watched an NBC Dateline program about the Woodstock Peace & Music Festival, which happened 40 years ago this month. How ...

In 1973 I took a Greyhound Bus ride from Salt Lake City to San José, California, to spend a couple of days with a friend and to clear my hea...

Sally and I saw Julie & Julia yesterday. I found one of the stories it tells good, the other great. While Julia Child's story of he...

There's a consultant for everything. An Associated Press article by Samantha Henry, which I read in my local newspaper last Sunday, tell...