Sometimes when the air is just right, its invisible ingredients comprising a particular admixture of humidity, pollen, fragrance, and who know…
The other day I was at the grocery store, grumbling that the house-brand refried beans, 69 cents for quite some time, are now 89 cents, an inc…
This didn’t turn out at all as I’d expected.
You kinda gotta laugh.
My maternal grandmother, were she still alive, would have turned 141 years old today.
My maternal grandmother, were she still alive, would have turned 141 years old today.
In the spring of odd-numbered years, it’s my task to upgrade the operating systems on my computers. It sometimes goes uneventfully.
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It’s not nostalgia that leads me to think of a television show that all but disappeared more than 50 years ago. I bring up the once-famous “GE…
In March 1981 a moderately successful television program premiered on ABC. “The Greatest American Hero” was a semi-spoof superhero show that r…
We’re not supposed to be surprised that Ernest Elbert Midkiff has died, which he did last Wednesday. He was, after all, 99 years old. He would…
Though it’s not true all over the country, here in southeastern Ohio we are enjoying an early spring. As I write this, the forecast for today,…
We’re gonna do it. We are going to launch a rocket that will whack an asteroid and, it is hoped, change its path through space. No, really, we…
Last week it fell to me to help assemble a piece of exercise equipment. There was no brand name or country of origin specified, but the enclos…
The average age of people in the United States is 38.4 years. That seems young, but in fact we’re on average older than at any other time in o…
We’re in the midst of Lent, the pre-Easter period in which many of us who are Christians are called upon to give up some pleasurable item or p…
For the last little while I’ve been watching a remarkable program, “Wonder Egg Priority,” that adopts an unconventional approach in considerin…
Last year a poor priest in Italy accidentally turned on the software special-effects filters before streaming Mass to the faithful. It gained …
Rush Limbaugh was a friend of mine.
Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658; two and a half years later he was executed.
In the course of writing a column one encounters items of interest that may not be enough to sustain a whole weekly screed but that are worth …
You may have heard the story that broke late last week about the fellow whose exotic sex play involved a Chinese-made gadget called a “chastit…
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In a far corner of my office-library-study is a digital clock with large red numerals. Most of the time it is blinking, because it’s inconveni…
In a far corner of my office-library-study is a digital clock with large red numerals. Most of the time it is blinking, because it’s inconveni…
It’s inauguration day. Some of the events are calm and predictable; let us pray that all of them are, but as I write this I do not know and wo…
In 1937, as he told it, a newly qualified veterinarian named Alf Wight took a job – hard to find at the time – with a practice in Yorkshire in…
Last week the actor Anthony Hopkins put online a video recording of himself expressing happiness over 45 years of sobriety. In 1975, he said, …
Cooking programs on television have evolved over the years, not always for the better.
By Dennis E. Powell