Beluthahatchie

I read in today's paper that in any given year, only a third of the Earth gets any snow. We definitely now live in the lucky third. Att...

"I would have played for nothing as long as somebody would have fed me."

I haven't decided what to charge her for the photos.

Also on my Sunday drive, I passed radio station WMLK in Pethel, Pa., which caught my eye because I wondered whether the call letters stood f...

While driving through Shartlesville, Pa., yesterday, intent on getting home before night and snow fell, I passed Roadside America . Next ti...

That's the time, date and place of the Beechcraft Bonanza crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Bi...

This Baltimore Examiner article about the city's beer-brewing heritage introduced me to National Bohemian, a.k.a. Natty Boh, for gener...

I was pleased to read on the wires that influential pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton is still going strong, age 88. I met Brazelton and int...

I was pleased to receive in the mail today two copies of the new audio edition of my story "The Chief Designer," a two-CD set in t...

Dr. Phil Kaldon writes: We get woolly bears migrating across our driveway here in West Michigan. They tend to look like our cats, some are ...

My hero Bob Devney -- eight-time Hugo Award nominee in the Best Fan Writer category, and author of the best convention reports ever written ...

My hero Gwenda Bond had a good response to my confusion over this headline: I think "mad" here is being used in the sense of wick...

In reply to my post about the heyday of the Hard Rock Cafe, Jason Lundberg writes: I was also caught up in the whole Hard Rock furor of the...

Regarding our family superstition that "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" must be said as one's first words on the first day of the month,...

On the subject of on-air deaths, my hero Jeffrey Ford writes: Do you remember the old guy who died while Dick Cavett was interviewing him o...

Of the on-air death of local disc jockey Chazz Offutt, my fellow Frostburg resident Jeremy Bruno writes: Do we ever get any good news in th...

Veteran Cumberland, Md., disc jockey Chazz Offutt died on the air, during his morning show, the Tuesday after Christmas. A listener told Mic...

California farmers, desperate to ward off hail, are buying hail cannons again. The best recent newspaper article on hail cannons is by Joe G...

The federal government, expecting the worst, is beginning to move out of Washington, D.C. We were talking about this at the 2002 Campbell ...

You may have read about the lawsuit filed by the high-school senior in Rhode Island who wants his yearbook portrait to depict him wearing ch...