It never fails that when we have big family reunions up in New Jersey, someone will say something that gets the whole place rolling in laughter and it becomes a pseudo-theme for the weekend. What was shocking about this particular trip was that the random comment where laughter ensued came from my grandmother. The reunion […]
I don’t remember when I first watched the Winnebago Man clip at the bottom, but it was a long time ago. But I do remember that it reminded me why I left Kentucky (with its copious amounts of RV ads for RV dealers in southern Indiana) and also that this guy may be one of […]
You gotta love kids. They sometimes forget where they are. Like in the case of Kenley Farace. He was the 20th speller to compete, so obviously pretty early in the competition, where at 8:20 in the morning people are still sipping their coffee and getting into the day. He walks up on the stage and […]
Today begins my seventh year that I’m working with Bill on the Spelling Bee. It’s been a job we started doing back when we both worked at Scripps, and even though we both left that place years ago, we’ve found a nice little sidejob taking photos for all these newspapers across the country (and world, […]
Besides kicking some ass and posting my first sub-90 golf round of the year, I spent most of the Memorial Day weekend engaged in what the wife and I called the Scorched Earth campaign. This is our first Spring in the house, and so we were curious how quickly the local flora would consume plants […]