The shiny blue pig is covered with pink flowers. It sits on the bureau below our wall-mounted television. And it eats pennies. Actually, this is blue pig No. 2. Number one suffered a sudden, untimely death. I bought the china piggybank when our grandson Malcolm was two, I thought it would ...

Most communities had at least one corner store. When I grew up there were three corner stores along the way as I walked to school. The one we frequented most was owned by the Denglers. He had groceries as well as some paper products. The thing that I remember most about this little store is ...

This past Sunday was terrific. I attended a mini-reunion of fellow employees from a design firm where I worked during the eighties. Together, we built custom kitchens, baths, and family rooms. Sunday, eleven of us lunched, laughed, and shared old stories. It was like we had never left, except ...

Lately it seems like Facebook has been flooded with various devices that make music or at least play music. Although I have not experienced all of them, I had some of them. Let’s start with the earliest device I remember. I had a Victrola. I had a lot of 78 rpm records to play on it. The ...

In last week’s column, I mentioned that I love it when my children buy me tickets as a gift rather than more stuff. An hour after I finished writing on Tuesday, my son called to say, “What are you doing next Saturday?” When I replied that we had no plans, he said, “Hold that – I’ll ...

As important as history is in classes, and as crucial as learning about the Revolutionary War and how countries and many others came to be is for us, history is happening right in front of our eyes every day, and it is flying over the heads of people who aren’t experiencing it. On Oct. 7, a ...