When I go to a thrift store I look at photo frames because sometimes I find personal or family pictures. Yesterday I found the above sepia-t...

Looking through the old issues of Life magazine on Google Books is an education on the middle decades of the Twentieth Century, especially i...

This tribute to Richard F was in my local paper yesterday, mixed in with the obituaries. The piece is in extremely bad taste, and I don'...

Here's a 1960s flashback: Jennifer Anniston does a turn as Barbra Streisand on the current issue of Harper's Bazaar. The catch is yo...

Kyra Sedgwick turned 45 today. This beautiful actress is the star and executive producer of The Closer , shown on TNT Monday nights. It'...

From 1976 to 1981 I worked part-time in the rare books department of a large full-service bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our store was s...

It's Gary Larson's 60th birthday today. Larson, who did the comic panel, "The Far Side", for 15 years, is still reaping th...

Joe Jackson is 56 today. Happy birthday, Joe. When I listen to Joe Jackson's music I believe I'm listening to something apart from t...

I read an article in my local newspaper, "Are Beards Back?" I was surprised by the headline because I didn't know beards had ...

Today's birthdays include Ronnie Spector, who is 67, and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, 63. When Ronnie sang "Be My Baby" there ...

Stan Freberg is 84 today. Freberg has made me laugh for over 50 years, and I want you to spend some time here today reviewing what I conside...

Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 Sixty-five years ago today, August 6, 1945, a U.S. bomber crew dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three d...

On the Science Channel program, Through the Wormhole , host Morgan Freeman asked, is there a creator of the universe? I'm not religious,...

We got our property tax assessment the other day. We're not so surprised that the value of our property has gone down, but we were surpr...

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...