- Birds, plants, ants bring welcome, unwelcome signs of spring
- May 8, 2013
- What this winter lacked in severity it seems to have more than made up in tenacity. It just doesn’t seem to want to let go.
- The battle in my brain
- May 1, 2013
- I admit I have lazy leanings. But I also suffer from a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. As you might imagine, this ongoing conflict creates severe internal dissonance, what with these battling personality traits constantly competing with each other inside my head.
- Siren song of the garden: ‘This year will be different’
- April 9, 2013
- I think it’s about time I got my hands in the dirt again. I mean, after all, here it is the middle of April, winter has basically done its worst, and the planters out on the deck are calling me. “Come on,” they are saying, “this year it will be different.”
- The blackbird is back
- March 18, 2013
- The blackbird is back. I don’t know what this signifies; it seems a little early to me, but maybe he had slim pickings in whatever southern bayou or glen where he spent the first part of the winter.
- A question some find distasteful
- March 13, 2013
- Over the past few years, I’ve noticed, restaurant servers almost invariably ask me, “How is everything tasting?”
- The bright side of a bad day
- March 5, 2013
- I should have known Thursday was going to be a bad day as soon as I walked outside around 7 a.m. and fell on my tailbone.
- Walking in circles with purpose
- February 20, 2013
- My wife and I came up with a solution at about the same time: find an uncrowded indoor mall to walk in.
- Scandinavian whodunits source of curiosity, enjoyment
- February 13, 2013
- I’ve become something of a fan of Scandinavian television crime dramas.
- The silver-screen lining
- February 5, 2013
- They don’t make movies like they used to.
- Son of the South
- January 30, 2013
- As the saying goes, you can take the boy out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the boy. While that aphorism hasn’t been around as long as Stone Mountain — which is located, appropriately, in Stone Mountain, Ga. — it’s just about as enduring.
- Look-alive minivans a vehicle for humiliation
- January 16, 2013
- It’s getting harder to remember every year, but there was a time when you could find your car because they didn’t all look the same.
- Farewell to a humble servant and brilliant scholar
- January 8, 2013
- The last time I saw my old friend Fred Krebs was in September.
- New Year’s observations but no resolutions
- December 27, 2012
- I don’t usually bother much with New Year’s resolutions.
- Christmas and grandkids
- December 19, 2012
- It’s really not the same without any kids around, but we are not deterred. This year, we’ll be seeing our grandchildren just on either side of the holiday.
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What was your best day ever?
“Aug. 18, 1945, I returned from the Pacific to my wife after serving five years in the Army Air Force. We spent 60 more years together.”
