Beware of the scarecrow
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Not because of the pagan ritualistic celebrations of all things evil, but because it’s just fun. The...
Bad things come in threes
I thought I had escaped it a year ago. I should have known better. After all, they say, bad things come in threes.Three summers...
‘I will miss us when we are gone’
About a year ago I wrote a column about comedians Laurel and Hardy and about their return to post-war England and Ireland in the...
It’s crime to fly kite in Hillsboro
Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty and he is a fixture in history primarily due to the Code of Hammurabi....
The Mummy Man of Sabina
Recently, I heard a story about a small town’s peculiar claim to fame and it really interested me. I wanted to share it with...
14,000 dogs and counting
Since 1963, I have trained more than 14,000 dogs. All shapes and sizes. Some crazy, some not-so-crazy. Some with minor problems, some meaner than...
More than halfway home
The country singer and sausage king, Jimmy Dean, lived high above an expansive, picturesque section of the James River, on Chaffin’s Bluff in Varina,...
Think your boss is tough?
Last week I wrote an article discussing the 40-plus federal agencies that employ armed investigators. If a citizen were investigated by the FBI or...
A self-delivered Dear John
If you have lived any length of time at all, you will have accumulated enough moments, memories of events, that you would just as...
We get some strange calls
It doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as it used to, but from time to time we still get some strange phone calls here...
