Oddball Observations

A former mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, was known for reading the funny papers on a radio station during a newspaper delivery s...

  I received a photo in my email yesterday. It was taken in Paso Robles, California, at a winery introducing a new "bubbly", as my...

  "Where's Matty?"

  Joy, joy, joy is on the land for it is Friday! Well that may be putting it a bit too generously. But it is my favorite day of the week. Fo...

  A cousin of mine is marking her 79th birthday today in faraway Montana. In her defense, I might note that she is just about two and a half...

  Our gourd plant was stripped of most of its leaves the other night by an unexpected hail storm. That, accompanied by a couple of nights of...

  My wife's daughter, the legendary BRD, has often proven a thesis of mine, that skills are inherited. The artistic gene has come down t...