I am taking a break from Nickworthy.

While much has been made about The Athens NEWS moving to publishing once a week, I feel several important points have not been made about this move.

Did you ever think about how the names of various cities are stupid?

Too often people talk about procrastinating as if it’s a bad thing.

 I often marvel at the outstanding quality of names of different items.

Every Who down in Whoville liked the time change a lot. / But the Nick who lived in Athens certainly did not! 

It sure was windy over the last week. How windy? I’m glad you asked.

 Like many people, I am familiar with the computer keyboard.

The winter of 2019 has taught me several important lessons already, and it’s still only February.

I am trying to do more things out of my comfort zone in 2019, and two recent events proved to be much more uncomfortable than usual.

A snowy weekend in Athens provides a lot of time for pondering important questions, along with these thoughts:

Robots are now delivering snacks in the United States.

While way too much attention has been paid to one holiday song this year, I believe we are ignoring several much more significant problems with Christmas carols.

On Christmas Day of 1975, my family moved out of our home in Denver, Colorado.

What do I want for Christmas this year?