A 2022 After-Action Report

Let’s face it: 2022 sucked. Don’t get me wrong: In no way am I suggesting 2023 will be any better. That’s the mistake a lot of people made at the end of 2020 and 2021. […]
Let’s face it: 2022 sucked. Don’t get me wrong: In no way am I suggesting 2023 will be any better. That’s the mistake a lot of people made at the end of 2020 and 2021. […]
I was in Dollar General— I don’t make this stuff up— When I ran into the Grinch, And his reindeer, the pup. “What brings you to town?” I asked, to be nice. “The last […]
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
Halloween is the scary holiday, and it’s timed perfectly to arrive just before the two scariest spots on the calendar: winter, and elections. It’s hardly surprising, then, that one popular Halloween mask is that of […]
On this 100th anniversary of Nation Fire Prevention Week, I thought I’d take a quick look at the history of firefighting. You might want to brace yourself, we’ll be moving fast. Fire was discovered by […]
We have an aloe plant in my kitchen that’s prospering nicely, and appears to be in perfect health. Not only that, but a couple of other houseplants are also green and healthy beside it. I […]
When hamsters came into my house years ago they had little plastic balls, so they could run merrily all over. (Humans now have those, too. You’d think we could just walk.) We did have to […]
My youngest daughter wanted to color her hair. Brown. Remember brown, it becomes important later. My oldest daughter volunteered to do the coloring. She’s good at that kind of thing. (At least she was then–this […]
Let’s say some guy–not me, you understand, but just some hypothetical person–started to get a little ache in his knee. Maybe it started, for example, from lifting a sick 75 pound dog into a car, […]
One thing about getting older is that you tend to know about all the medications out there. For one thing, they get advertised on what many people would consider “old person” TV channels: Science, History, […]