Weird things happen at Christmas. Many of them are predictable. Every year, women's magazines run articles about How To Beat That Holid...

First heard about these guys on ABC's Nightline. It's a new phenomenon (or not-so-new, growing organically out of break dancing, mim...

This is one of those weird things. An ad has been running for Glade air fresheners in "holiday" scents, presumably cinnamon and sa...

It's just that kind of a day. I don't know if it's the time of year (or maybe it's the time of man). Looking out my window ...

I wasn't expecting to actually find it. I have sheafs of old poems in a file drawer, probably hundreds of them, many handwritten or type...

I don't know what to say about John Lennon. I don't know what to say about Christmas, except that it's coming at me like a freig...

I'm not much when I first wake up in the morning, but I had to be up today. My daughter-in-law was stopping by this morning to pick up a...

It has come home to me once again that life can be overwhelmingly difficult, even crushing. I see, looking back, that I have a certain tende...

Like a lot of boomers, I remember the Sonny and Cher Show, which got more painful as time went on. Cher was already beginning to look embal...

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I don't know quite what to make of these (click on link, below). Most of them are, I think, real. But don't let your kids see them! ...

I can get addicted to almost anything. Mad Men . Caramel corn. Three Stooges videos. All kinds of good stuff. The knitting addiction start...

J'ever notice you never see Jon Hamm and Gregory Peck in the same place at the same time?

Life is hard enough. Isn't it? But when something you really liked, even loved, suddenly turns bad. . . This happens with marriages, an...

Hey, y'all. I don't know quite whas'sup with Oprah these days, but it seems her "farewell season" has to trumpet ...