Travelling out to Ohio yesterday, I decided to do a little family history detective work. I took the kids on a side trip to Butler, PA, which is where my dad’s side of the family hails from. Using some info that my cousin Shari found, as well as some I tracked down on my own, I found this building, where my grandfather was born.
This is the inside of the cap of a bottle of Jones Soda I had with lunch today.
Bad title, sorry. A while back, Oprah performed the coup of getting a televised interview with Cormac McCarthy. She asked him the question that’s been on everybody’s mind, “what’s with the punctuation?” His very good explanation was along the lines that, if you think through what you want to say and write clearly you don’t [...]
We all have our comfort food vices. When I’m at home alone I enjoy making fish soup. Go figure. No one else in the household appreciates it, so I treat it like a guilty pleasure. One of my favorite cookbooks is “A Tuscan In The Kitchen.” The author’s recipes don’t have measurements, temperatures or timings. [...]
These movies really don’t have anything in common other than the fact that I’ve seen them in the last week or so. First is “The Untouchables,” which was airing on AMC under the rubric of a “20th Anniversary.” I loved this movie when it came out, and rented it a bunch of times, but haven’t [...]
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