It’s been cold back home in the Midwest lately. A little too cold, if you ask the US Postal Service. It’s been more than 20 years since Seinfeld first took up the issue of whether letter carriers were really up to the task.This weather is serious, though. Not Al Roker serious, but serious enough to prompt warnings…
A Dallas firefighter is a finalist for Hormel Chili’s “America’s Best Firehouse Chili” contest.Firefighters from across the country, who apparently have nothing better to do [true story: while he was serving chili, the bell started going off and a bunch of firefighters who were on shift had to leave], have been cookin’ up concoctions using Hormel Chili…
My hometown is causing the National Park Service to shake its head and wring its hands with angst over a plan to knock down the world’s first airplane factory.Dayton has a complicated history with aviation. The Wright Brothers built their plane in Dayton, but then they trucked it to North Carolina to fly it. As a rebuttal, Dayton…
Across the country today, Toys [Backwards R] Us stores opened their doors for the last time.I went to a store near White Rock Lake, where passing cyclists wouldn’t stop yelling expetives at me to explain what was coming downstream, to talk to people who were doing some last minute shopping.People were lining up outside the store about…
I’ve spent the past several days in Indiana, where I went to college. I was looking to burn some “comp time” from work and Ball State associate Chris Ulm had declared a karaoke night.I decided to drive instead of fly.”I’m not shellin’ out 400 bucks for an airplane ticket!” I explained to my computer screen.Plus…
I spent part of December at home in Ohio, where my mother likes to remind guests, when they look at the family Christmas tree, that I had a rich, full head of hair when I was in kindergarten.Then I tell people, “Oh, you should have seen me in first grade, though! It was like a ghost town up there…