Maybe we shouldn’t have poked fun at zombie raccoons. Last week, as you may recall, or maybe not, we mentioned the presence of so-called “zombie raccoons” in a community up near Chicago.
Apparently, the zombie raccoons read the paper. They got the word out, and the next thing I know, a raccoon with...
Critters have been giving yours truly lots of stink eye during recent adventures on The Journey Through Life...
...before we focus on stink eye stuff, allow me to share something else that we all need to worry about.
I ran across a little article in the May 16 issue of USA TODAY which reported some...
For the ever-so-briefest of moments, I closed my eyes and was driving down South Broadway Street in Lexington, Kentucky...
...the ever-so-familiar sounds of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believin’” are coming from the car’s radio...
...and the moment had to be really, really brief, ‘cause I really,...
All I wanted to know was the score of the game. (By the way, if you don’t care about sports, and ice hockey in particular, you can stop reading right now.)
Last Saturday night, The Other Half and yours truly were motoring back home from Anna. I turned on the car’s radio, which, for some reason,...
In the “it was so warm and windy last Thursday” category...
...it was so warm and windy last Thursday in Union County that when I drove by a pasture along the highway, I saw a horse fly...
...get it...a horse fly...as in a horse flying in the wind...oh, never mind...
This week, we’re going to take...
Let’s get started this week by making a rash assumption that squirrels do not receive junk mail. Either in the form of traditional “snail mail” or some form of electronic communication.
(This, of course, also makes me wonder if snails receive “snail mail.” If not, how do they receive valuable junk...
No matter how many pilgrimages we make to see it, the Mississippi River remains awe-inspiring.
One day last week, your writer had to make a road trip to Cape Girardeau, over in the Show Me State, for an adventure in the health care system. All went well. Actually, the doc said all was “great.”...
Once again this week, we’ll have a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...just bear with me...
...in the “at least we don’t have to worry about this” category...
...yours truly read last week in USA TODAY that the Department of Fish & Wildlife in Vermont was urging people “to take down...
It was Friday, the weather was beautiful, I had just gotten paid, it was my lunch break and I was on my way to the bank.
I’d decided to walk in order to enjoy the warm weather. I took a shortcut across the tracks and was headed down East Vienna when a white SUV with government plates appeared...
It probably wasn’t a good thing to write this when all of my cylinders weren’t firing. Anyway, here we go...
Yours truly spent a good portion of last week as a member of the Malady of the Month Club. Membership benefits included coughing, hacking, a bit of a low-grade fever, three nights without...