Well, they are for me, but the kids won't start until Aug 5. I go back Monday. I've been preparing my cats to steel themselves for M...

Grocery shopping these days can be a trial, for sure. When you have a budget and you try to stick to it, the prices today can make that hard...

I think the finest thing about summer, and there are many fine things, is to sit quietly in my chair by the window, reading, listening to th...

I started Bill Bryson's " The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America ." I was looking forward to reading it. I enjoyed ...

I finished my books and went to the library, as per usual, on 'Thursday Grocery Day'. I picked up Comanche Moon, the next installmen...

...it's dusk Ronald Reagan Statue "A statue of Ronald Reagan is to be unveiled in London's Grosvenor Square, as part of a ye...

When I and a friend were in Italy some years ago, we stayed a couple of nights in Orvieto, an ancient Tuscan walled town. We found a hotel t...

I went grocery shopping this morning, my weekly airing out. I'm not fond of expeditions into town, and in this case "town" is ...

It was Lonesome Dove weekend on American Movie Classics. I found this out at 9 pm on Sunday. Oh, well, better late than never. I have seen...

My two cats could not be more different. One is a tiger and the other is a black and white. The tiger is Bert, and the b&w is Luke. Bert...