I was rereading a book by Dave Barry today while my wife was getting her hair done. I had read “Lessons From Lucy” when it was first published in 2019. It was a sweetly poignant story about learning the simple joys of life from old dogs. Quite nice, but the real shocker was “One Last …
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I was driving home from the grocery store this morning when I noticed the American flag at our golf club was flying at half staff. That’s a pretty serious thing, and it usually means a great America — usually a former president — has died. Although as strange as our culture has become, it could …
Something very strange happened last night. At my advanced age, I don’t often have vivid, complex dreams anymore. I used to have quite a few, some pleasant and some that would qualify as nightmares. For about 15 years starting in my late teens, I had dreams in which I was being chased and before being …
This will be more of an update of yesterday’s post than a completely new one. Of course the Queen died yesterday. I doubt that it was much of a surprise to anyone after her physicians said they were concerned. Queen Elizabeth II was never the kind of person about whom bulletins were posted, and the …
“Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never, never, shall be slaves …” I always thought the second half of that line was one of the best sentiments ever in any of the de facto national anthems, and I take great pride that half of my ancestry in English and I can trace my British …
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I have only one magazine subscription that I really care about. I subscribe to two newspapers — the New York Times and the Washington Post, both online — and if I lived one county closer to Atlanta, I would get home delivery of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. For the entire 20-plus years I lived in California, …
“Trump extremists of the Right, the MAGA Republicans, are promoting semi-fascism.” When President Biden made this statement in a Philadelphia speech last week, Republicans and their useful idiots in the media had a classic hissy fit and said they were extremely offended by being called semi-fascists. This might shock you, but I agree with them …
Twelve thousand tons a day. When I put our trash out for pickup on Sunday nights, I figure there might be 40 or 50 pounds in the trash bags to be picked up on Monday mornings. I live in a community of about a thousand homes, so if my trash is average, that means the …
When I was a lot younger, I used to enjoy watching football games. I was a sportswriter for nearly 17 years, and at different times I covered high school, college and professional football. I covered one Super Bowl (one of the worst ones) and two Rose Bowls (both pretty good games). I worked the NFL …
Mitch returned from a weekend in the country and was telling his friend about it. “We played a game called cornhole and I didn’t like it at all,” he said. “Why not?” his friend asked. “Couldn’t you get the beanbags in the hole?” “Beanbags?” I believe it was humorist Finley Peter Dunne, writing more than …
