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Guide to gifting with grace
December 6, 2009 If there’s one thing I know, it’s gift givin. more »»
Holiday shopping requires referees
November 29, 2009 Thanksgiving is over and I see the shadows of Christmas shopping circling around me, like vultures in gift wrap. Guys like me dread this time of year. more »»
Be smart, eat chocolate
November 22, 2009 Not only is chocolate a health food, it makes you smarter, too! Smart people – by that, I mean chocolate eaters – are waving the studies to prove it. more »»
Bunny business on Turkey Day
November 15, 2009 In retrospect, it still sounds like an interesting experiment. I wish someone would let me close enough to run the next test. more »»
Pick a pocket, any pocket
November 8, 2009 I stepped into the chill of winter’s first blast, the old parka bundled overtop my flannel shirt. more »»
It’s a bad day for ‘John Doe’
November 1, 2009 Bob from Warren is having a bad day. A whole bunch of them, most of which he can’t remember. I suppose that’s not so unusual considering his bad days go back several centuries before he was born. more »»
It’s time to take the shot, but which one do I need most?
October 25, 2009 If we’re going to be pestered to death about inoculations we should receive, at least there ought to be some practical ones in the stockpile. more »»
How I ran into my wife
October 18, 2009 Today is our first wedding anniversary. I shall be eating a year-old and likely stale wedding cake, which I hope will have a chance to thaw out first. more »»
Nothing annoys, you know, like grating words
October 11, 2009 The winner is, like ... whatever. At the end of the day, Americans find ‘‘whatever’’ to be the most annoying word in conversations. more »»
For the love of your lawn, let missing rakes lie
October 4, 2009 The leaves are beginning to change colors, and you know what that means — that’s right, it’s nearly time to try to remember where you last left the rake. more »»
Snake tale stings boys using it as toy
September 27, 2009 The snake was lying on the roadway, flattened about the head a bit, but otherwise in excellent condition. ‘‘Ooh, we gotta do something,’’ Ollie said. more »»
Welcome to our ape overlords
September 20, 2009 Baby chimps are smarter than baby babie. more »»
My fat is my sweetie’s fault
September 13, 2009 Are you, like me, married? Then take heart — and another helping of dessert. Your fat isn’t your fault. It’s your spouse’s. more »»
Aging checklist — but no check — is in the mail
September 6, 2009 I wandered to the mailbox, full of hope that a check for $1 million would be there. It happens often. Hope, I mean. The check never is in the mail. Today was different. Not the check part. more »»
Become gruntled with couth
August 30, 2009 It turns out that gruntled IS a word. And I’m disgruntled about that. I intended to write an expose of some of the gaps in the English languag. more »»
Clunkers go way beyond just cars
August 23, 2009 The federal government has invested gobs of greenbacks in its Cash for Clunkers program that ends Monday. Too much, some naysayers say. more »»
Garden terrors have him shaking in his pants
August 16, 2009 Fresh vegetables have been finding their way onto our dinner table. more »»
All a-twitter about tweets
August 9, 2009 Sweat trickled down the old man’s brow as he flapped the blanket over the fire in a couple short, staccato bursts. Puffs of smoke floated airward, spelling out the next phrases of the message. more »»
Recession saves husbands from thoughtfulness
August 2, 2009 It’s hard to believe, but our one-year wedding anniversary is only about two months away. Fortunately for me and many other guys in my position, the economy still is in the tank. more »»
Honey, you do ruin vacation
July 26, 2009 Perhaps she doesn’t understand the meaning of the word ‘‘vacation.’’ The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines vacation as ‘‘a time of respite’’ and ‘‘a period of exemption from work. more »» |
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