Dear Readers, The time has come for me to take a break from this weekly missive. The breaks I’ve taken in the past were because…
I am old school enough to subscribe to a hard copy newspaper every morning. It is a relaxing way to absorb the news of the…
There is a good movie to be made in the telling of how the cause of stomach ulcers shifted from lifestyle and diet issues to…
Years ago, my long gone Mother-in-law was angry with her brother. Her husband had had his leg amputated due to diabetes complications. Throughout the ordeal…
It is a challenge for most people to picture who their parents were when they were young. In those years of being — ‘BC’ —…
Recently there was a Facebook question making the rounds; ‘If you could remove anything from the world what would it be?’ The only answer I…
Most schoolchildren can recite the rhyme “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” But when he arrived in the Americas what did he find, really?…
A better, more accurate description of a graphic novel is to call it sequential art. This term gives a little more respect to the artist…
Grocery shopping is the one regular household chore that people complete together in a common space. Everyone in the store, doing the same thing in…
Interview questions on the radio last week were all about what lessons people had learned from their mothers. The answers were usually along the lines…