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Tonight at dinner we were talking about various summertime pests--yellowjackets, wasps, scorpions, etc. Less than thirty minutes later, when...

"There's a woman at the counter who'd like to talk to you," Buck said quietly. I walked over to see if I could help her. E...

Every now and then, Susan and I just can't settle on a single pizza place for dinner. To resolve that decision-making dilemma, we develo...

It's very early in the morning of June 25th, and we're officially at the Mid-Christmas Equinox, as I have come to call it. The last ...

The news of Ray Bradbury's death wasn't surprising, but it was saddening. Like many, I grew up with Bradbury's imaginative tales...

I've come to the conclusion that there are few blog and/or social networkssubjects more polarizing than politics. There are people I...

Susan and I went to see The Avengers on Thursday. Now if you know us, you realize what an unusual thing that is: I haven't been to a mo...

I'm a big fan of DC's Showcase books; these are hefty 500+ page collections of comics, reproduced in black and white, priced at le...

This morning, shortly after I got up but before I went out for my morning walk, I got a call from my cardiologist's office to let me kno...

Over the past few months, I've been sorting through various items that have been stored away--some for a few months, some for a few year...