Yearly Archives: 2024

If I Could Turn Back Time

One of the benefits of aging is looking back at your past mistakes, and then cautioning your younger relatives and friends to avoid those mistakes. Early in my work career,… Read more »

Looking for a Duck Cleaner

With the help of readers, I collect misspellings, misinterpretations and other mishaps. As you’ll see at the end of this column, I even published an entire book of them! Here… Read more »

Let’s Get Physical

Both leading presidential candidates recently underwent physical examinations. These were immediately followed by gushing press releases, assuring us that these two codgers are in peak form, seemingly ready to compete… Read more »

What About My School?

  For those of us in the news business, it’s a busy time of year: winter. You know the drill: reporters on every mountain, endless video of salt spreaders and… Read more »