Beluthahatchie

Since New Year's, in three separate cases, three schoolteachers in Howard County, Md., have been arrested on sex charges involving thei...

I'm to be one of the instructors at this year's Summer Writing Institute at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Michael Ondaatje...

John Jude Palencar's cover for Wizards is up at Amazon. Click on the image to see a larger version. I also learn from Amazon that the ...

Allow me to put in a plug for B&B Country Meats in the Wrights Crossing neighborhood of Frostburg, Md., where I stock up once a week on ...

Sydney spotted this rainbow cloud over our house at midday on Feb. 11. I was able to capture two shots of it before it vanished. These two...

I was mystified to read of Gov. Martin O'Malley's 145 "green bag" appointments to various boards and commissions, but lo,...

Thanks to Netflix and the Turner Classic Movies Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 , we just saw the pre-release, no-holds barred versio...

"You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane." -- American Airlines spokesman John Hotard, o...

According to the cutline beneath this front-page photo in the Cumberland Times-News , a single high school in Cumberland, Md., burns about ...

I enjoy reading the daily celebrity-birthday roundup in the Cumberland Times-News , and Saturday's prompted an interesting breakfast-tab...

... I am pleased to hear from Donovan S. Brain . The quote at the bottom of his/its blog is worth the click.

Phil "Dr. Phil" Kaldon writes: Were you in Greensboro during the era of the famous Greensboro police department "fuzz bunnie...

I'm sure the T-shirt worn in this photo by Megan Hott, winner of a high-school Voice of Democracy contest in Keyser, W.Va., speaks for m...

Little did I know, when I bought a Handy Can of WD-40, just how handy it was! Look at the grand claim on the back. Shoot, we ought to send ...

The Taliban say they will open private schools in defiance of their nation's government. That sounds familiar.

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...