Today is the birthday of Prince Harry of Wales. He’s 28. Henry Charles Albert David is the younger son of Charles and Diana. His older brother William, who married Kathryn Middleton earlier this year, will most likely be the King of England someday. But what about...
My insurance premiums were so high a couple years ago that I had to cut back to “catastrophic coverage only.” Now that premium has just increased $43 per month, which, if my math is correct, is an increase of somewhere around 20%! The biggest problem with my current...
Grandma Moses, who began to paint at age 78, is the one who comes most quickly to mind, but there are other “seniors” who didn’t make it big until well into their, shall we say, “later years.” Colonel Harlan Saunders was a youthful 65 when he franchised his chicken...
“You need another cat,” said my mother last December. “I’m not over the last one,” I replied. “There’s another cat just waiting for you down at the Humane Society,” she insisted. “You go down there and check them out. You’ll see.” I would have dismissed the whole...
It’s Labor Day, and you know what that means—time to put away your white summer tennis shoes and break out the dark blue ones for fall. Back in the day, we traded our summer shoes for “school shoes,” always heavy lace-up saddle shoes or slip-on loafers. I fancied...
