O bituaries for my former high school classmates are coming faster and closer together as time goes on. This obit is for one of my class...

A s a Baby Boomer I’m just one more of millions who remember where we were and what we were doing on that day Kennedy was killed. For th...

A big murder trial wrapped up recently in Salt Lake City. It was one of those trials that capture national attention, and the November 13 e...

Mad magazine takes the whole history of sex, from Adam to now, and compresses it down to a few pages. Funny history, funny subject! Copyr...

I like to write, and I write this blog to be read by others. I also like to read good writing. It gives me intense pleasure, but it is also ...

For Halloween I present a short and shuddery tale by master storyteller Richard Matheson. Matheson, born in 1926, died this year, and in his...

A Tourism Department photo of the alien landscape of Goblin Valley. Y ou might have seen the YouTube video showing some jerks destroyin...

Y esterday I completed the second half of a ritual I have performed each year since 1975. I climb a ladder to the roof of my suburban split-...

Years ago I found the first edition of a 1941 anthology, The Other Worlds , in a Salvation Army thrift store in California. It reprints s...

Anthony Hopkins binge-watched the five seasons of Breaking Bad , and wrote star Bryan Cranston an e-mail to tell him what he thought of t...

The Walking Dead is back for its fourth season. It began its new story arc last Sunday night, attracting a huge viewing audience, and for...

On a December day in 1966 I heard that Walt Disney had died. I thought it was the end of an era, that the Disney entertainment empire wou...

Tea party: more Benedict Arnold than Paul Revere . It’s hard not to look upon the dysfunctional mess that is Congress in 2013 as being ...

I am fascinated by this article about the filming of the movie Trader Horn from the June 1968 issue of American Heritage magazine. The mov...