The Black Cat Strut
Several years ago a big black cat was spotted around my hometown of Albion, a place in Indiana that isn’t noted for exotic animals. Well … actually it is, since several live at the Black […]
Several years ago a big black cat was spotted around my hometown of Albion, a place in Indiana that isn’t noted for exotic animals. Well … actually it is, since several live at the Black […]
No one wants to face challenges or work for their dreams, anymore–they just want everything handed to them. That made me wonder, what would have happened if Americans shared that attitude at the time of […]
We had an unusually cool spring, but we noticed a problem during the first heat wave of the year: Our big window air conditioner blew air just fine, but that air wasn’t conditioned. I don’t […]
I don’t talk much about politics, but just to show I’ve always paid attention, I uncovered this piece from way back in 2012. I think you’ll find me on the cutting edge of activism: […]
Is it just me, or has Mother Nature been, this year … grouchy? Surly? Cross? Cantankerous? Yeah, I thought so, too. Maybe we brought it on ourselves, the way everyone has been storming at each […]
I got my first cell phone in late 2001, for use in emergencies. It’s capabilities: making phone calls. But oh, how times changed, as what happened just five years later shows. I just wanted to […]
We got a new radio system in our dispatch center, and the guy training us on it claimed we could use it at home, on a laptop. This is a great idea in theory: It […]
A guy in Montreal turned a paperclip into a house. Let’s start at the beginning: It was a regular, run of the mill red paperclip, which Kyle MacDonald noticed on his desk while sitting around […]
Have you ever received one of those e-mails about all the amazing things you can do with, say, Coke, or some other seemingly innocent substance? (I mean Coca-Cola, not the drug that used to be […]
By now you’re all sick of 2025 being as bad as 2024, and maybe you’re thinking of just cancelling the rest of the 2020s. Low ratings, right? They cancelled Firefly. But my wife and I […]