“POST-IT NOTE INVENTOR DIES”

“POST-IT NOTE INVENTOR DIES”

May. 25, 2021 by

(This obituary appeared in the May 28, 2021 issue of “The Week” magazine. While I don’t usually borrow items in their entirety for my blog, I did find his story

“WORDS I AVOID”

“WORDS I AVOID”

May. 18, 2021 by

         Wally Armbruster, according to the wording on the cover, “manufactured” (as opposed to “published”) a little paperback that he titled “A Bag of Noodles” (Concordia Publishing, 1973).  It’s a

“ONE LAWYER AND THREE NUNS”

“ONE LAWYER AND THREE NUNS”

May. 11, 2021 by

         This is not a defense for one or the other side of the immigration controversy.  Rather, it’s to let readers know that I learned about something that’s been going

“A NOBLE, BUT SQUELCHED, EFFORT”

“A NOBLE, BUT SQUELCHED, EFFORT”

May. 4, 2021 by

         Fourteen years ago I traveled to North Carolina to give a kidney to my sister, Kris.  She and “George” (the name she gave to the kidney for whatever reason)