Would you believe?
The find of the week at our wonderful library: DVDs of the first season of “Get Smart,” the brilliant Mel...
Bab-O
It was one of those things that happens sometimes, a random comment that, when thought through, makes me realize how...
Speaking of “fail”
It’s possible I’m going to have to go uptown to meet my man, ’cause I am desperately short of ginger...
College marketing fail
Listen, Little Liberal Arts College, if you even want your sales pitch to reach my exceptionally gifted daughter’s field of...
Parental fail
Since I’m pretty sure I was taught to use a bottle opener as part of my general service as beer-fetcher...
Wendy
Woke up this morning with the Beach Boys’ understated classic “Wendy” in my head, inexplicably, and a troll in my...
A little like a turnip green
It’s a miserable, rainy spring Sunday, it’s all I can do to stay awake while reading about the French and...
Terra Nova
Growing up on a bicycle and having pretty much free rein, I got to know the streets of my village...
Psychosis
Watching TV with the kids is always an interesting learning experience. They’re both old enough now that we’re past worrying...
Spring! Yeah, right.
The march toward Spring is such a cruel thing around here. We get those delightful warm days when the temperature...