An indie band heads for the woods to work on their music. There is a sign as they enter that says DON'T GO IN THE WOODS, which is also t...

Magna, Utah, is a town on the western side of Salt Lake County. It’s a working class town, where family names are apt to be Greek or Italian...

The headlines tell the story. Today, June 11, 2012, I googled polls gay marriage support and going down the page the headlines say: “Same-S...

  Copyright © 2012 Postino       On an August day in 1961 thirteen-year-old Kenny, preoccupied with going through this week's ...

Ray Bradbury in New York City, 1939. Photo by Julius Schwartz.

A contemporary account of the invasion of Europe from Life magazine, cover-dated June 19, 1944. Copyright © 1944, 2012 Time-Life, Inc. ...

When I started my career in a large county school district in 1976 a female principal was a rarity. Out of sixty-nine principals there was o...

Yesterday we had a shaggy dog story, today we have a story that ends with a turn of phrase. Having one phrase with two different meanings is...

The definition of a shaggy dog story* is one of escalating events that build the reader’s expectation for a pay-off at the end, and then doe...

I'm a couple of days late with my Memorial Day posting. I think we should remember our dead every day, not just on the last weekend of M...

John Fogerty is 67 today. Happy birthday!

Lord help me, I'm addicted. I'm a collector. I'm not rich. I'm a collector on a budget. Friday Sally and I visited a coupl...