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…
The cicadas are coming and, yes, by the billions! The Cicadoidea superfamily dates back 250 million years and numbers more than 3,000 species. Those soon to magically emerge from their subterranean abodes in the eastern U.S., as many as 1.5 million/acre, and launch into an amorous sing-along are in the genus Magicicada, magician cicada. Often…
A young grandson proclaimed to us one afternoon, out of the blue, “dogs don’t have souls.” My ever-wise soulmate Alice replied kindly, “But, I think they do": by …
Having taken up wordsmithing at the tender age of 11, when I signed up for my first Latin class, it’s unsurprising that my heart skipped a beat when I first heard about the movie …
Les Harrison’s recent column on Florida’s black bears (See Dec. 3 Times “Bears are Florida’s largest native mammal”) brought back a mix of memories. First I thought of …
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