As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.
We find them everywhere we turn.
The Auburn Police Department (APD) arrested a suspect Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 17) that they believe to be the person who…
My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our lives that…
One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of making New…
Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.
Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one…
Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.
I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the puncturing of…
For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of the stealth…
Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.
Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic legislators.
Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.
Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will remember my…
Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever…
I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery, brook-no-argument crusaders…
Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids.
With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago…
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.
It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished…
To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.
