The Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, has been refurbished at last. The project took two months — long enough that the statue of a seated Honest Abe in the Lincoln Memorial bent the elbow of its right arm and rested its chin on its ...
Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang decided to have lunch together in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 45th anniversary of their first matchup for the heavyweight championship in 1981. Lang, then a brash young challenger who taunted Balboa mercilessly before the fight, had knocked out Balboa in ...
There’s a fine line between psychic and psychotic. We’ll get to that. But first, let me tell you about my few, brief encounters with the supernatural. Let’s start with the Magic 8 Ball. All the rage when I was a kid in the Fifties, this toy was the brainchild of Cincinnatian Albert ...
I was sitting on the Liberty Bridge, waiting at the traffic signal just before entering the outbound Liberty Tunnels, when a thought occurred to me: Maybe we should do something about the rather bland portal that frames the twin tubes as they enter (or leave) Mt. Washington. I believe ...
Our first news quiz of 2026 awaits you! It’s a multiple-guess quiz, with many of the questions centered on the recent hostilities between Iran and the United States. There will always be at least one correct answer but, unlike some news quiz writers, I won’t tell you which one it is. It’s ...
You know that feeling when you hit it off instantly with someone? That’s what I had when I and the woman who is my current faithful companion – let’s call her “Tonto” — had our first dinner date. I’ll get to that. But first, some background. I met Tonto through a mutual friend ...
