In addition to my free smarties every morning, when I was shopping with my mother on a Friday morning, the women in the local chipper would give me a free bag of chips (are they still referred to as a… more →
Tragically Unhipwrote 2 days ago: I was talking to my brother last night, and apparently his oldest kid has been working on a science … more →
wrote 1 week ago: There are two things that always happen when I tell someone for the first time that I was born on Ja … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: This past Sunday was another snowfall day, which some people say is good because we need the moistur … more →
wrote 3 months ago: In the good old days, I’d be nine years dead already, if I were lucky. Most of my ancestors on … more →
wrote 8 months ago: (Warning: Lot’s of So’s in this piece, so turn off your inner editor!) I have always bel … more →
wrote 8 months ago: In addition to my free smarties every morning, when I was shopping with my mother on a Friday mornin … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Every morning my mother brought me with her to the shop up the street, and the woman who worked ther … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Today’s excitement: a trip to the salon (formerly “the beauty parlor”…if onl … more →
wrote 11 months ago: This is funny. ======== When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears With their tedious diatrib … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I was told that Spaghetti Westerns were so called because they were “made in the same place sp … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I thought these would have been called Paint And Leather. I mean, what the hell is patent-leather an … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Suddenly, I felt the urge for a beverage. A Coke. How’s that for a dramatic start? That … more →
wrote 1 year ago: …I remember watching the first episode of The Hulk. When he made his grand entrance (I believe … more →
wrote 1 year ago: It was G.K. Chesterton who mused in the preface to his great book Orthodoxy that writing a book was … more →
wrote 1 year ago: How I am like my dad Spreading apricot jam on my multigrain roll, I looked over at Bill. He was taki … more →
wrote 1 year ago: My parents started our first church in 1964; I was two years old. I grew up in a wonderfully unique … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I remember when I was a kid, everyone thought Pele was so cool. One year, I remember going to a soc … more →
wrote 1 year ago: …I didn’t have an imaginary friend. That probably explains a lot. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Ok so I went and I was coming home to wite a kinna “i dunno…” review of the flick, … more →