From the Back Porch
Stone soup redux
Do two people looking at the same thing see the same thing? Do stories we carry from generation to generation mean the...
The Reel News
Pictured are Keith and his son, Jacob, from Kansas, with a 2-man limit of trout. They both fished with Austin Kennedy of Busch Mountain...
Hall Closets
Back in the early 2000s, two of my favorite URLs were geekfest.com and woopig.net. Both were message boards that provided platforms for peeps (anonymously...
The Dirt on Nicky
Since you asked
Speaking of garlic, I visited my friend Betsy who lives in a tree on the next ridge over to ask about the...
Esoteric astrology as news for week September 24 – 30, 2025
Libra, Autumn, Archangels & Season of Forgiveness
Thursday, September 29, is Michaelmas, Feast of the Archangels. We begin with St. Michael the Archangel, guide and...
The Coffee Table
Don’t call me sweetie, darlin’
People are sometimes surprised to find that I am 71 years old. They say, “You don’t look 71,” although I beg to...
Hall Closets
Ouch! Oh man! That one stung, badly.
Two missed FGs and an ill-timed turnover on a late-game drive that coulda/shoulda/woulda won it for the visitors,...
From the Back Porch
Houselights flicker, then go off. A few coughs, bodies settle into seats. Silence. A spotlight hits center stage, the curtains open, and there he...
American Insights
Who Are We?
On the dark, seemingly endless autumn night of Saturday, November 23, 1963, the journalist James Reston began to write. “America wept tonight,...
The Dirt on Nicky
Garlic built the pyramids
French physician and bon vivant Henri Leclerc gets credit for calling garlic “the stinking rose.” Garlic belongs in the lily family,...