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We were going down the road eating fast food, traveling from a tennis match to a volleyball game. The two venues were about 30 miles...

Sometimes I think important people don’t realize how unimportant they actually are. A few decades ago, a guy by the name of Robert T....

I was raised to not talk about money. When and where I grew up, most people had about the same amount of money, more or less – mostly...

I was in the mood for a holiday serenade. It was a lovely morning. I’d gone out as the sun was coming up over the slough, said hello to...

I don’t know much about time machines. In the movies, they seem to be complicated apparatuses with levers and blinking lights. Who knew...

Recently I’ve been intrigued by reports about the importance of high-status higher education in the work world. Don’t get me wrong; I’m a...

I brought some sweet corn home from town. We had lettuce and tomatoes in the garden, bacon in the fridge and a fresh loaf of sourdough...

Life does not get much better than sitting by a fire in the gathering darkness, flames building and bats swooping overhead and hearing an...

My problems started because 50 years ago, I didn't know I liked blueberries. Not all my problems – I can't blame baldness and alternative...

I never got my owner's manual. Maybe it got lost in the mail. There's so much I don't know that other people seem to, information that...