Think back with me to a day when you were in a high school English class and your teacher began to talk about a figure of speech called an oxymoron. If you were like me, you paid little or no attention to her. You may have had a thought like, “Why do I need to know what an oxymoron is? When I get ou...

There is a moment, every fall, that reminds me why I love this state. The sun goes down. The lights come up. The smell of popcorn and the smoke of pit hamburgers drifts across a parking lot that was empty six hours ago and is now packed bumper to bumper. The band strikes up. The student section erup...

A few years back I bought and lost a robotic vacuum cleaner that I affectionately called ‘Boo Ray’. Little Boo Ray was still in his youth, about two weeks old, when he mysteriously and unexplainably disappeared while vigorously vacuuming my home. I looked and searched for him for months and months. ...

Thank the Lord for teachers, principals, paras, bus drivers, custodians, lunchroom techs and all the other school employees who walk the halls, teach ...

“Little Pig, little pig, let me in!”“Not by the hair of my chinnie chin chin!” Most everyone recognizes these lines from the nursery rhyme “The Three ...

Dear Rusty: My wife is 66 (born February 1960) and started taking Social Security retirement benefits just over one year ago at age 65. She was a stay...