Staying as productive as Sophocles and Lear
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
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…
In the Stone Age, when I was born, there were of course no online shopping sites (Al Gore hadnt yet invented the internet). There werent even malls. All the big department stores were downtown, and thats where everybody shopped. My mom and I would ride the bus and spend a day marching from store to…
When my parents started handing me a weekly allowance, it was just a quarter. Even though RC (Royal Crown) Colas and my favorite snack, Big Fig bars, cost only a nickel each, it seemed to me 25 cents didnt go very far. At 12 or so I got to be a bit of an entrepreneur…
By the time I was 12, I was hooked on horror. First it was
grisly pulps like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror, published from
1950-55 by EC/Entertaining Comics (though there
When I was growing up, we had just one dog (and no cats at all), a slight, curly-haired German Schnauzer mix we called Blondie. The name reminded me of Chic Youngs Blondie comic strip, which I read avidly as a kid, but there was no connection that I knew. My parents had barely finished grade…
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