I was hanging out with a bunch of guys watching the US Open on television the other week.  We were watching the women's game (no comment) between Venus Williams and…

Yesterday, someone asked me how my day was.  I took a few seconds and then told them, "Pretty good, got a lot done.  Yep, it was a pretty good day." …

I did it.  Despite the advice of a trusted movie friend, I watched the musical, Across The Universe.  This was a leap for me, you see, because other than Grease,…

Stacy's Mom - Rachel Hunter.MILF.  A term I believe was made widely popular by the movie American Pie .  It means Mother-I'd-Love-to-Fornicate.  The F doesn't really stand for…

Second grade.  Mrs. Mim's class.  It was a time of innocence and playfulness.  We were kids who knew nothing of the gas shortage or the real world.  The nation had…

Kids always find ways to rebel against older generations.  They do it through music and art and hair styles and more obviously, through clothing fashions.  For instance, do  you tuck…

I was talking with a friend the other day and he suddenly turned to me and said, "Do you smell that?"  My instinctive reaction was to say, "It wasn't me,"…

I was playing Scrabble yesterday and I began to wonder if they televised the Scrabble championships.  They have them, you know, because I've read about them.  But do they televise…

The lungs provide our bodies with life-giving oxygen. The heart pumps our blood, the kidneys filter our system, the eyes provide visual representations of the world around us. We've even…

The Impervious Baseball RainNovember is finally kicking into full swing and the cold is upon us.  After a month of teasing us with relatively mild temperatures, Autumn has turned the…