The Secret Lives of Words One of my earliest memories is of sitting on the ground, playing outside our apartment, and suddenly finding big black ants swarming all over me. They weren’t stinging, but they were startling, and oh so scary. I shrieked, jumped up, and ran around in circles trying to brush the critters…
When I was 12 or so… Seems like most movie and TV cowboys have issues nowadays. They abuse their families (think 2021’s “Power of the Dog”); murder unforgivingly (as in Eastwood’s 1992 film “Unforgiven”); or end up being crazed androids (in “Westworld,” the franchise begun in 1973, now an HBO series). Things were different when…
The two most important agenda for citizens in a healthy democracy are voting and following The Golden Rule. A headline I spotted recently offers another invaluable reminder: The People
On a recent vacation in Maine my wife Alice’s daughter Sara suffered a blood-curdling experience. Or rather her beau Derek did: no sooner had he plunged into the lake near their rustic cabin for a swim than he came lunging out, shrieking with a leech latched onto a very personal part of his posterior –…
An episode of NPRs Morning Edition last month featured a short but inspiring interview with Norman Lear on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Best known as screenwriter and
Therere about 1.3 million gators in Florida (not counting all the UF football fans), and itll soon be easier to manage that population, thanks to a rule change approved this spring by
The shrimp boats is a comin, as Jo Stafford enchantingly sang in her 1951 pop tune, and its hard to believe that it took this long for Franklin Countians to give the lowly
Just a mile-and-a-half from the house in Norfolk, Virginia, where I grew up was Wilders Drive-In Theater. The place had opened in 1948, when I was 3 years old, just as drive-ins were beginning
Just a mile-and-a-half from the house in Norfolk, Virginia, where I grew up was Wilders Drive-In Theater. The place had opened in 1948, when I was 3 years old, just as drive-ins were beginning
My original title for this column was Garage Mechanics. I decided that might be misleading, as Ive never been good with my hands. When I enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve at age 20, the battery of tests included one on mechanical aptitude. There were a lot of pictures of tools to identify and…
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