Recently I was reading the Abrams book, Only What’s Necessary, Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts , when I came across a scan of the o...

Today my wife and I made some home improvements purchases at Lowe’s, over $1000 worth. I was happy to get a 10% discount because I am a vete...

Cartoonist Walt Kelly was the man who came up with the slogan, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” It is a pithy way of referring to peop...

Illustration by Par Holman. Copyright © 2017 Par Holman I read that a few days ago some evangelical types did a laying-on-of-hands for ...

Lyman Frank Baum created a whole world in his Oz series for children. Published originally in 1900, the original Oz book has gone through co...

Haunted house stories in fiction can be very entertaining, even if you don’t believe in ghosts and wandering spirits or demons. I don’t kn...

I watched The Revenant  again recently. This time I felt the need to look up what is known of the mountain man, Hugh Glass, an attack by a g...