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Sunshine was making a rather rare appearance last Sunday afternoon, so yours truly decided to go for a nice, long walk.
It was either go for a walk in the sunshine or spend some more time on homework. Yes, kids, homework. Think that you won’t have any more homework after you finish school? Wrong....
This all started with what seemed like a pretty simple, maybe even silly, idea, and then quickly ended up going down a rabbit hole. By the way, do you know the name for a group of rabbits?
One day last week, your writer, who also takes an occasional photograph or two or three, was looking at an...
Bear with me, folks, as I attempt to wrap up one more loose end left over from the dearly departed year 2019...and share a little bit of a history lesson, too.
Last fall, in November, to be more specific, I motored to Carbondale to hear a presentation about a tragic chapter in the history of our...
The holiday season “officially” came to an end last Sunday evening...with a bit of a sputter. “Officially,” with quotes, looks, well, much more official than just plain old officially, standing there all by its lonesome self.
“Officially” is written with confidence. Because Sunday evening was when...
‘Tis the season for tradition...fa la la la la la la...
By the way, did you know that “‘Tis” is an “old,” as in “very old contraction of ‘it is’”?
Dictionary.com was kind enough to inform me that “the apostrophe replaces the ‘i’ in the word ‘it’ to create ‘tis.”
It seems that ‘tis was a “fan...
The holiday season has arrived. Christmas is less than two weeks away. Which does not seem possible.
With the holidays in full swing, our thoughts turn, of course, to vultures.
Truthfully, it’s hard not to think about vultures these days. Some of the radio stations in our little corner of the...
Maybe we should all be used to such things by now. For some reason, the weather prognosticators were suggesting on Sunday evening that there was a “chance” for snow flurries.
So it was a bit of a surprise when I looked out the window Monday morning and saw that “flurries” had accumulated on the...
Truthfully, it might have been hard to determine who was more surprised by a rather brief encounter which occurred during the second afternoon of November at a popular Southern Illinois lake.
The encounter involved a creature of the four-legged variety and another critter with a mere two legs.
The...
Before we get started on the good stuff, let me just say that I looked at the calendar on Monday, just to make sure it was still November...and not December or January.
At the time this was being crafted on Monday morning, the sky was gray...the wind was blowing...light, drizzly precipitation had...
‘Tis the season for eyes glowing in the dark of night as a critter creeps in your direction...hissing...spitting...and then you realize that the critter is your own pet cat.
One day last week, Bob went on an adventure. We have two pet kitties. Bob is the boisterous one. Full of energy. Capable of...
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