The stars must have been aligned last week. Why? Because three unusual, slightly strange, things happened this past week. Well, it wasn’t exactly monumental news, like an asteroid about to hit earth, but then again, these things were a bit different and unusual. Take the fact that ...
It is a special week this week. There is something special that is being celebrated this week. Oh, there is Fire Prevention Week and National 4-H Week, among other things, but there is also something else that is near and dear to my heart. It is National Newspaper Week. And yes, that is a ...
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I taught a college journalism class. OK, that sounds way too pretentious. The truth is, I was a guest lecturer in a college journalism class. I gave a presentation on owning and operating a small town newspaper. I have done that same presentation to high ...
You have probably noticed that there is suddenly a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (A.I. or AI) and the dangers of it possibly taking over the world from us human beings. And it could be the end of the human race as we know it. Robots and computers taking over the world with the ...
I read newspapers. I always have. I also watch the news on TV, pretty much every single day. Sometimes in the evenings, if I am home, but mostly in the mornings, before I go to work. I blame my mother for that. She was a TV news junkie and we had the news on our black and white TV every ...
My gosh, where did the summer go? Didn’t school just let out a day or two ago? And now they are already back in session? As Kevin Mertens laments in his Snap Shots column, and others are saying as well, the summer just flew by this year, or so it seemed for me anyway. I suddenly realized ...
As I contemplate what to write about for this week’s column, I am sitting near the beach on Cape Cod Bay in the town of Brewster, Massachusetts. The tide is out, which means that instead of the water of the bay being 10 feet away on the beach, it is a mile out. Yes, a mile. I am not ...
He’s back. Or maybe, just maybe, it could be that she’s back. But I sincerely doubt that it is a female doing this. And, it is not Arnold Schwarzenegger, who promised he would be back when he played the part of the Terminator. No, the person I am referring to is almost worst than the ...
I sure heard a lot of comments about the Primary Election last week. Probably the most common comment was from people who said they don’t hardly ever – or maybe even never – vote in a primary election but they were sure going to vote in this one. Locally, that probably had to do with ...
I just about biffed it last week. And by biffed it, I mean crashed the Ford Explorer. And I almost crashed it not once, not twice, but three times. The first one happened when someone was stopped at a stop sign (OK, he actually never stopped, he just slowed down) and then pulled out with ...