The world is filled with incredible inventions, and I am a big proponent of most of them. I like a variety of gadgets, but one device drives me crazy … crazier. Every autumn, I rail against the world’s most annoying appliance, the dreaded leaf blower. My neighbor is obsessed. He’s out ...
ByDave bates Contributing writer Let’s be honest from the get go. This is nothing more than a personal shopping list of items I’d choose to receive for Christmas if I were to go shopping for myself. That being said, if anyone can get a copy of this into my wife’s hands before Christmas ...
So I was preparing the last of the Thanksgiving side dishes, when my son wandered into the kitchen to say good morning. He and his wife had driven in from Kentucky the night before, and he was still sleepy. As I reached into the dishwasher for a clean coffee mug, I mumbled to myself that ...
Q. I don’t have a question this time. I just wanted to report back. I wrote to you about my family fighting, and you answered me in your column. I showed the column to my parents, like you suggested. A miracle happened. They got all weird, kind of embarrassed. They asked me if I told you my ...
Two weeks ago we visited Key West, and we felt obligated to see the home of Ernest Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish Colonial-style structure at 907 Whitehead Street from 1931 to 1940. Built in 1851, the home was in disrepair when Hemingway purchased it, but the renovations made by him and ...
At 60 years of age, the anticipation of the first day of deer season still gets me. I have a number of friends and acquaintances that have given up or find reasons not to hunt anymore. The reasons are plentiful: “We don’t eat deer meat.” “Not enough people in the woods to move ...
