News that The Equalizer was the top movie this past weekend prompted me to recall the 1980’s television series of the same name. Edward Woo...

I own guns. I do not have a concealed weapons permit, nor do I leave the house with a gun on my person or in my car. I think it is just aski...

I found this century-old Tom Swift dust jacket on the Internet. The technology needed must have seemed impossibly fantastic when this bo...

Recently an article in my local daily newspaper posed the age-old question, “when is it time to tell kids the facts of life?” There'...

One of the popular themes of science fiction movies is invasion from space. I have been revisiting a few of those movies that on a very ba...

The Salt Lake Valley is ringed by mountains. If you want to know what direction east is you look at the “big mountains”  — the Wasatch — a...

Above is a family picture I never saw until the 1980s when a lady loaned it to me for re-photographing. It's a picture of my grandfat...

The mirror knows! Is there someone out there who looks like me? Photo by David Miller My wife’s brother was talking to her recently. H...

I found some 1960’s issues of Look , and just like I did as a kid when my parents’ subscription copies arrived in the mail, I turned first t...

I wrote this and posted it in 2007. With some minor editing I am presenting it again. Some time ago I got one of those e-mails that friend...

I wrote this post in 2006, and with a couple of edits I am presenting it again. Vip (Virgil Partch) was a cartoonist who was popular from ...