I stacked tonight’s dirty dishes on top of last night’s still littering the sink. My kicked my balled-up coat further into the corner against the closet door — the coat closet door. I haven’t coaxed the vacuum cleaner to life since… let’s not get into that. I don’t know if my ...

Snow and ice shut down roads, county offices and Taco Bell. The dire predictions of snow and ice piled up much higher than the actual snow and ice, but still, it was sufficient to keep us tucked away in our homes. I used to dream about days like this when I was a kid. Growing up in the ...

With age comes wisdom. That’s the rumor, anyway. I, for one, have never been this old, therefore, I have never been so full of wisdom as I am full of it now. Or full of something. Chocolate chip cookies, most likely. To quote the great philosopher Robert Paul, “I’m a little bit older, a ...

Remember the Cold War? It raged between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when I was but a kidling, but already was thawing. No longer did kids have to drill ducking beneath school desks in case of a nuclear strike. That’s right, at one time school desks were considered armor. The grownups ...

I need to apologize. I’ve been baking Christmas cookies. That’s a horrible thing to do, I know. Most cookies are ruined by baking. It’s the dough that’s money. I doubt that a more perfect food has ever been created. I suspect that it might even be what the Bible referred to as ...

It’s the most wonderful, er, stressful time of the year. OK, maybe those final few hours before April 15 tax deadline when you can’t remember where you tucked your W-2 so you wouldn’t lose it is more stressful, but the Christmas season is a more sustained stress. That’s why I’m ...