This month I was dallying around, nursing my writer’s block, until I reached my wits’ end trying to come up with a topic for this newspaper column.  As deadline loomed, I …

I realized this column was due minutes before our power went out during last Tuesday’s evening storm of heavy rain and high winds. What else is new? I thought, already planning for the …

My mother liked to make rules. She liked to say, “No going barefoot until the date of June 8,” which happened to be her brother Quinten’s birthday. It didn’t mean much, …