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Seventy five years ago this week, millions of ordinary Americans were convinced that the world was coming to an end.

Don’t worry about the dead ones in the cemetery…it’s the live ones that will bury you. The ScariestWho’s the scariest

We are wrapping up the tag ends of summer, hurrying to finish warm weather tasks, getting ready for the colder

Last year Paramount Pictures brought to the big screen the remarkable movie entitled, “Flight,” starring Denzel Washington. Denzel played the

Autumn has rounded the corner and sent beautiful October weather to our hills. October gold is spread all over the

It was harvest time, and Dolores struggled to feel like she was of any value. From the time she was

My wife loses a lot of things… until she finds them. The QuizI pulled into Mike’s to get my car

My wife loses a lot of things…until she finds them. The QuizI pulled into Mike’s to get my car washed

The little wild asters are making their appearance now, leaning over the creek as if watching the yellow leaves floating

“Maybe it’s time for you to settle down.” Those were my words to a friend who was seeking a bit

Swinging on the porch swing in the gathering darkness. . . only the monotonous sound of the night bugs. .

An ancient story often retold but never without relevance, has one of the Egyptian Pharaohs making a strange request of

The computer takes more blame for the operators’ mistakes than they do. I suppose it’s because, unlike the operator, the

You have to hand it to Windy. When Alphonse “Windy” Wilson chooses to speak, it is a bombastic sampling of

The best gifts are not always in the prettiest packages. BitchySome mornings,I wake up bitchy.If I’m hungry,And want something to

It was the early 1980s. It was Texas. It was December. It was a Southern Baptist church. It is customary

Here is an ironclad prescription for personal misery: Attempt to keep everything, every person, every detail, and every moving part

I had ordered all sorts of food in Peru. I had tried chicken with a side of beans, beef with

Summer is dwindling down, with midsummer wild flowers holding court now. Yellow seems to be the dominant color, from the

One of the sweetest compliments I have ever received since I began writing came in the form of a poem

There is an old story about a monastery that fell on hard times. Once it had thrived, but over the

“Sanctimonious siphons, it’s hot!” said Dud, sitting at the philosophy counter and turning over his coffee cup for action with