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Once when he was very little my brother asked my mother if the iron she was using to press my dad’s shirts was hot.“Why...

It was a little before midnight, and the credits for Raymond Chandler’s movie “Farewell, My Lovely” had just rolled as my wife, Brenda, and...

It was Josh who said we can usually ignore this stuff, but not when it happens at our front door.That’s where the Canada goose...

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend and delivered what I thought to...

It almost does not seem possible that it has been 10 years since Pam Stricker walked into my office and told me The Times-Gazette...

I don’t remember much about my last official day of high school — and probably not just because it was, quite literally, more than...

The other night while watching YouTube I heard a song by country singer Tom T. Hall called “Our Little World.” He sang of the...

Our nation has some pretty absurd laws. For example, the federal government has declared the importation of crocodile feet to be illegal if done...

I remember thinking that Mom would always be there. Even shortly after my Father’s funeral when without her knowledge I heard her praying in...

After somewhere around 37 years, a lost class ring is finally on its way back to its original owner.Last week in this space I...