The doorbell rang. He was still young, in his mid-20s now, and taller and heavier than I. She was about the same age, maybe a year or two younger, with wavy blond hair and a million-dollar smile. I hadn’t seen… READ MORE

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Lately, torch-wielding mobs have been gathering at my front door, demanding to know what I want for Christmas this year. These mobs are in luck, because after thinking about last year’s very sad Christmas, when I received mere thousands of… READ MORE

In this photo the author (left) greets a visitor to the Northwest Florida Daily News' booth at a local festival. As you can see, the author is overjoyed by the warm - make that cold - greeting the visitor had to offer, which probably resulted in even more gray hairs appearing in his head. Photo courtesy of the Northwest Florida Daily News
This morning I thought we would take an intimate look at eye crud, but a vastly more important issue has since arisen: Apparently I’ve reached that point in life when, in order to continue looking young, I must give Mother… READ MORE

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I have amazing news for you homeowners who may not be up on your pest lore. This amazing information comes to us from the Allentown Morning Call, which is a newspaper with a strange name, almost as strange as Playground…. READ MORE

I want to relate to you diet-conscious consumers an important health tip about shopping in supermarkets. To put it bluntly, if you value your health, you will stop snooping in my cart to see what kind of food I buy…. READ MORE

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Everybody experiences them: moments when you commit acts so unspeakably embarrassing that you wish you could drop from the face of the planet. Here are some of mine: 1. It is the night of the newspaper’s customer appreciation party. A… READ MORE

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This is the story of a woman, a river, and a concussion. The woman’s name is Debbie; the river has many names, none of them printable here; and the concussion … I guess it was my fault. I told Debbie… READ MORE

Google AI.
Here is everything you need to know about the contemporary music scene: (Important note to readers who are about to stop reading and write me nasty letters calling me a tone-deaf burrowing parasite for ridiculing contemporary music: This is not… READ MORE
The women in the backshop are standing there putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and I want this madness to stop right now because they’ve almost got it finished and I could never get past unwrapping the box. You’d have to… READ MORE
I recently had an opportunity to take a midwinter vacation, and because I didn’t want to spend a lot of money traveling somewhere, I decided to spend this week right here in Florida, the tourist capital of the United States,… READ MORE