I am definitely happy when I look at this map. It looks like the farthest south the 17-year cicadas will come is at least a hundred miles north of where I live. Since I lived in California in 2004 and Colorado in 1987, the only contact I ever had with this particular infestation was in …
If you have a hard time believing this country is falling apart, consider this. Greater Idaho. There are seven counties in eastern Oregon that want to secede from their state and become part of a state that is most famous for … Wait for it. Potatoes. That’s right, potatoes. Unless you prefer white supremacists, many …
Military brats have been around for a long time. Most people know it’s not an insult, but a term spoken with pride. It refers to children who had at least one parent on active duty who was getting moved around every year or two. It was mostly a big deal in the 30 years or …
If you’re looking for the tiniest of silver linings in this, you could say that at least Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to believe there really was a Holocaust. She’s a little off in her imagery, though. She says the Nazis made German Jews wear “gold stars,” but gold stars are what good little children get …
I have friends who have never traveled outside North America. I have a 9-year-old grandson who traveled completely around the world before his first birthday. There’s something really strange about that. My grandson Lexington was born in Seattle and has lived in Indonesia, Jamaica and Guatemala in addition to a couple of short stints in …
“They signed a treaty and our homes were taken, loved ones forsaken, they didn’t give a damn. Try to raise a family, end up an enemy over what went down on the Plains of Abraham.” If you want a lifetime of trouble, be the first ones occupying land someone richer and more powerful wants. If …
“Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal …
When people think of the great bands of the 1960s, there are a few that nearly always come to mind. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Beach boys … And there are others remembered mostly for a few catchy hit records. The Four Seasons, Jan and Dean, Gary Lewis and the Playboys … …
I’m pretty sure it was the spring of 1974, and I think it was a Sunday. I had two tickets to see a concert at Capital Centre. It was John Denver, and it was a show both my girlfriend and I had been looking forward to. We saw a lot of good concerts that year …
E pluribus whatum? It’s not like we were ever all happy to be part of the same country. The colonies were settled by at least two different types of people, the Puritans in New England and Anglicans in the southern colonies who had no problem at all with chattel slavery. Oh, neither group had a …
