If anybody can ask hard questions, the award has to go to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. She knows how to ask a question and, more im…
“You know it has to be summer,” said Dud, “when you see lizards carrying canteens.”
What spoils even more evening meals than robocalls?
I’m getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week — just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home — and I cannot wait t…
I usually pepper my public presentations with some humor. After all, even I know economics can be a rather dull and dry subject. Injecting som…
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Recently, I visited my local gym for the first time after snacking-in-place for over two months. It was like going to see an annoying former f…
This spring-now-summer of protest shows no signs of fading away, as demonstrators make their voices heard on issues as disparate as health reg…
Dear pandemic-battered readers, As you try adapting to the New Normal, just hope no diehards are waiting to confuse you with a plethora of ADD…
This is an uncertain summertime. Social distancing is a drag. It’s hot. We’re stressed.
Pope Francis couldn’t have said it better.
And is it racist of me to believe it would be a mistake to allow collegiate athletes to sell rights to their images?
“Ain’t the same, is it?” asked Windy. He sipped some more coffee.
Hank Williams Sr. wrote a song with the line “Your cheating heart will tell on you.” I guess Hank had suffered a broken heart and had found ou…
Oh, so now he tells us. John Bolton is telling us damning stuff about Trump that we already knew — and he’s doing it five months too late. Tim…
On Twitter the other day someone did what a lot of people have been doing lately: Comparing levels of oppression. In this case, it was all abo…
It was a jarring sight. The Confederate flag was flying above the state Capitol building in Raleigh.
Here’s one good thing about the COVID-19 pandemic: Bike sales are booming. I hope that means kids will begin riding in big numbers again.
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Maurice, the vocal French rooster who found himself at the center of a court case that captivated the world (at least that part of the world t…
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