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I wake up from a sound sleep with two things foremost on my mind. One, I have to go to the bathroom immediately because apparently part of the aging process is the shrinking of your bladder until it is approximately the size of a pea. Two, I have a brilliant idea for a column. I pull out the pad of paper in the drawer next to my bed because I know by now that if I don’t write it down, tomorrow I won’t remember it. And at 3 AM, this idea definitely seems to be the one that will win

The house rule is this – if I have to get up and go down the stairs to let the dogs out before we go to bed, then the dogs have to go out. Blue and Blondie are old enough that they now fall fairly soundly asleep by 10 PM.  And I do mean soundly. I have to practically stand over them screaming their name before an eye even twitches to indicate they are slowly realizing someone might be standing over them getting red in the face with effort. Why, you ask, don’t I shake them awake? Well, because I’m

In 1961, then FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow famously said, “When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that

Ah modern life. I was standing in my utility room getting dinner for the downstairs birds when the phone rang. Suddenly, a disembodied voice came from the phone after just one ring saying “bag lespee”. I thought it was odd that my answer machine was picking up in only one ring. I thought it was odder when I went in to the office to find no message. If no one had recorded a message on the answer machine, then where had the voice come from? I picked up the phone and there seemed to be nothing on the other end.

Turns out that having two hundred extra channels on TV doesn’t necessarily translate into having something worth watching. I now just have to scroll through more channels on the TV guide before turning the TV off and reading.

You can either freeze up or warm up completely. I’m beyond caring which you do. But for god’s sake, let’s stop the slop we are currently experiencing. It’s either winter or its not!

On Friday, a wonderful young man named Paul Mello came to my house and hooked me up to a HD cable box and a router for wifi Internet. I woke up in 1999 and went to sleep in 2010. He even fixed my remote so that it now controls everything but my bowel movements.If only I could remember even one thing he said. I can turn the TV on. That must count for something.

I know my dogs are bright and intelligent. I just know they are. But sometimes I do have to wonder.

When I got up the other day to let them out for their morning relief, I found a big moose all curled up in their yard enjoying a snooze. Clearly there was no going in the back yard. I went to the front door, opened it onto my front lawn and urged them to go do their business. They looked at me very puzzled. Clearly they had no idea why I was kicking them out of the house. And Just

I guess I shouldn’t complain about a four hour session at the dentist yesterday since I at least still have my own teeth to be worked on.  But still, four hours at the dentist is like four days anywhere else… unless you are having a proctology exam. Then it’s about equal.

As someone who has worked for over thirty years in the field of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse, I cannot express how thrilled I was when Governor Sean Parnell put his money where his mouth is and launched an offensive against these heinous actions.

What you need to understand is that in this field of work, we are used to getting a lot of blathering and bleating from politicians but little in the way of real commitment. When the camera lights and microphones go away, so does the interest of most elected officials as they turn their minds