There’s nothing like a good scare to force one to take a good long look at a few little bad…
Hundreds of flights canceled in and out of major airports, ice and snow still making any travel difficult, plans changed,…
According to my calendar, we are now exactly one week away from Christmas Eve, the last shopping/baking/wrapping/assembling day before there…
One of my earliest memories of what we always called “getting ready for Christmas” is being in my grandmother’s kitchen,…
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and most of us have planned our menu and done the necessary shopping, or decided…
You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “Too many cooks spoil the broth,” which I usually take to mean that…
Well, it’s finally over. Just when we thought it would never end, wham bam and it was over. We have…
On the last Friday of October, 2004, four years ago, I wrote the following, as part of a post-election column:…
One hundred years ago, in October of 1908, Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan was in a close race for president…
For years, I heard my father saying “What we need is a good recession, maybe even another Depression.” It was…
