I don’t know about you, but I have been hearing a lot about the market lately (the stock market, not the super market), about how the...

You may have noticed the days are getting longer as January wends its way through the early weeks of this year, and that should tell you...

It’s been 170 years since the beginning of the California Gold Rush. On Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill in...

Welcome to 2018. There were many explosions at midnight on Sunday. I’m hoping they were illegal bottle rockets and not gunshots. It is...

If I wind up making a New Year’s resolution, this is what it will be: I resolve to stop making New Year’s resolutions. You would think...

Tomorrow night, we’ll bid farewell to 2017. Most of the people I know say this has been a year that will never be forgotten. But, I’m not...

This is the time of year when I engage in the exercise of blowing off steam that has been building over time. Usually, this involves some...

Some of you gentle readers are aware that we leased our house for several years from a cat that let us live there for two bowls of food a...