Worthy to Print Column | Another Day in Paradise
How was your week? Mine was pretty great. Shoot, it should have been. After all, I was turning 80, and if you can’t have a good time on your 80th birthday, when are you going to have fun?
Like most good things that happen to...
Worthy to Print Column | What Is Your Legacy?
Do you have a favorite TV channel? I have just about given up on the major stations and news from anyone. I happen to like the Fox channel. I started watching Fox back when Bill O’Reilly was on and then he got kicked off...
Window on the World Column | Slow It All Down
There’s nothing like a little bit of Christmas in the shops in October to make you go … “ummm what?” The pumpkins have not even got boring yet and here we are ho-hoing our ways towards the end of December. I don’t want to...
Worthy to Print Column | The Emperor Has No Clothes
Well, hello there! Did you miss me last week? I hope so because I missed that I had to get a column written. Sometimes I just can’t get everything done. Especially when I feel like a battalion of Ukrainian soldiers had camped out on...
Funny Papers Again Column | What a Long, Strange (Round) Trip It’s Been
Today’s Funny Papers will be a bit abbreviated for no particular reason other than I have so much to write about there isn’t room in one, or 10, columns, so I’ll make it brief. For those unaware, which is I suppose most of you,...
Worthy to Print Column | Staying Up All Night
Did you get to see the blowout by the Eagles? My beautiful bride and I watched it until we started to think it was a lost cause and then we took a little nap. After the game, I took out the trash. It was...
Letter to the Editor | Capitol Violence was Unacceptable
To the Editor:
I am writing because I feel so sad and anxious about the violence at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday (Jan. 6). President Trump gave vocal encouragement and support to armed protesters who then stormed the Capitol; this was an act of sedition.
Watching...
Window on the World Column | The Dump Trailer
You know you are middle-aged, or frankly on the wrong side of the bridge, if you get excited about a dump trailer. It’s a long story; but we’ll just call him Scotty. Right at the beginning of our home remodel of sorts, we looked...
Worthy to Print Column | Past = Future
The other day my wife’s cousin and his wife gave me a little book of memoirs written by a young man who had been drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War. I sat down to read a few chapters and it got me...
