Emitt Rhodes had a talent for pop songs. He led the '60s band, The Merry Go Round, which in looks and songs brought to mind the Beatles...

A recent letter from a husband in advice columnist Carolyn Hax's newspaper column asked: “Why do women expect men to be mind readers?”...

" This is one of those e-mails that floats around the Internet. My friend Peggy sent it to me with a note, "There's a lot of t...

Don Henley is 63-years-old today. Don is two weeks younger than me. He's got looks, the talent and (presumably) all the benefits of a lo...

A special education teacher in Pennsylvania has been charged with 12 felony forgery counts. She falsified medical documents, including forg...

My brother and I are non-religious, as were our parents. My wife's family is mostly non-religious except for a couple of people who are ...

Copyright © 2010 Parade Publications, Inc. This Danny Shanahan cartoon was in the July 4, 2010 issue of Parade magazine, a Sunday newspaper...

I'm borrowing from myself here; I originally showed this song, "Fourth of July," on November 11, 2009 for the occasion of sing...

Sally and I don't have a dog; we've never had one since we've been married, although I had a dog when I was growing up, and as ...

Yet another of my major disconnects from current popular culture: the series Twilight , which just had its third--is that right? third? --in...

Armed with their cameras, Sally and her friend, Kris, headed east of Salt Lake City for a daytrip to the towns of Heber City, Park City and ...

Things I know for sure about my mother tongue, the English language: It's crazy. Rules are there, but constantly broken. It...

Pardon My Planet demonstrates the fascinating ability the human brain has to make order out of disorder. Researchers found out that while w...

Over twenty years ago my coworker, Roy, told me he had dreamed he was dead, attending his own funeral. He told the clergyman conducting the ...

The other day I watched a Discovery Channel TV show called Weird Or What? , which is a Ripley's Believe It Or Not- styled programs. One ...

British people and their press are being offended by the characterization of BP (British Petroleum) by the American news media. I don't ...

Boz Scaggs is 66 today. He was born William Royce Scaggs June 8, 1944 in Canton, Ohio. I make no excuses for liking his romantic songs, bril...

In a store a couple of days ago I saw a vision: a tall young woman, clothing at a minimum, gliding down the aisle. I only got a moment's...

I've written before about the AMC television series, Breaking Bad . As the third season winds to a close I find myself fascinated by the...