Murrmurrs

You know that thing where they take down a house in your neighborhood and a day later you can't even remember what was there? It turns o...

Don't know much about history. But I am always interested in the history of words: etymology (unless that's bugs). I want to know wh...

There's a whole lot of packaging in the world. I'd already ramped up my quest to avoid packaging, plastic in particular. I'm not...

In the summer of '78 we had been in our house for a few months. We were a good team. One of us had a down payment and a steady job, and ...

Poor Debbie Lesko! Some mean people wanted to keep the Republican congresswoman from Arizona from bringing her gun into the Capitol. She is ...

  This is all true. My Uncle Bill was unusual in a number of ways. The ways that pertain to this story are: he was quite poor. His meager sa...

I really don't enjoy this. What I want to do is publish the post I already had scheduled for today. Old fart meets credit-card reader, a...