"Among the first settlers of Athens County were many who had served in the Revolutionary War… Scarcely a cemetery is there which does not contain one or more graves of men who helped the young nation in securing its independence."

Halloween used to be celebrated on, you know, Halloween.

OK, very funny. Now stop.

And so came the time of year when the houseplants are brought back inside.

Then there was the time Red Foley came to our house for supper.

It has begun.

Having been in commercial media most of my life, my interest in advertising is more than passing.

If you have taken at face value the recent panicked coverage of vaping – deaths, illnesses, presidential pronouncements – then everything you know on the subject is wrong.

September is here. That used to be when school started, but not anymore. (Nor does school close for the summer in mid-May. There’s probably a reason for the changes, but I do not know what it is.)

The note from Katherine Ziff was tantalizing.

It’s while you’re in the middle of writing something, really on a roll, that the keyboard gives out.

There were wasps. Lots and lots of wasps, and they were just a few feet from the back door. This kind of thing is troubling, and it happened here over the weekend.

It was officially called “Woodstock Music & Arts Fair” and it began 50 years ago today.

More often than is justified, it’s thought that people, especially boy people, accumulate gadgets to make themselves feel cooler than they actually are.

Building 20 is no more.