‘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,...
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...
Boarding the retirement train
That day is almost here. The day I knew would come.And it seems to be coming quickly.I mentioned in last week’s column that retirement...
Laughter is good medicine
Attention editor,Thank you Herb Day for your much needed humorous articles. They bring sunshine to a cloudy day. You hit the nail on the...
Dancing in law school taught me about learning
It was always cold, snowy and dark on Monday nights during my third semester of law school.For three hours I would be in the...
