I've written a few times about the case of missing mother, Susan Powell. This post was written shortly after she disappeared. As the ca...

I've been telling people for decades that my coffee consumption (which is a lot) isn't hurting me. Now I find it's actually help...

Happy Valentine's Day, 2012.

The Walking Dead has its season opener tonight on AMC. Last season ended with something of a turkey shoot. Our intrepid crew of living surv...

Happy 203rd birthday, Abe Lincoln! Born February 12, 1809. You can watch a 90-minute documentary of the 16th President of the United State...

Do the living dead deserve the bad rap given to them by movies and popular culture? FICTION Copyright © 2012 Postino Feelings were strong af...

Copyright © 2011 The New Yorker Football in America is akin to a religion, and might have more members than any individual religious group. ...

The Italian Bride In the 1930s a newly married Italian couple is spending their honeymoon in the bride's mother's country cottage.Th...

Axl Rose is 50 today. Rick Astley is 46. Happy birthday!

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is 64 today. Happy birthday, Alice!

Yesterday I spoke with my friend and former work colleague, Brian. We talked about how our boss, Phil, died this past Labor Day of a mass...

Tommy Smothers is 75 today. Graham Nash is 70 today. Happy birthday to both of you! .

So Mitt Romney finally scored a victory. This time in Florida, a state so unique it has two time zones and a diverse and ethnically mixed po...

Sally and I went antiquing last Friday. She found some great old children's valentines, and then we went through a couple of boxes of ol...

In 1972 news of a long-term medical experiment, conducted by the Public Health Service since the early 1930s on black sharecroppers from Ala...

"I'm the 1%!" Mitt Romney released his tax return and there were no surprises. He pays about 13.9% in taxes, whereas the worki...