Shopping with a dinosaur

Sometimes we do not give our kids enough credit.I was out shopping last weekend with Kimberly, Calvin and Teddy. I was walking through the toy aisle with Teddy.

Whistle while you work

The Seven Dwarves were right. You need to whistle while you work.Well, the only problem with that is I cannot carry a tune if you gave me a bucket.

This column is clickbait

I have a confession for you this week.My column is clickbait. Well, not exactly the way you might be thinking.Everything I write is intended to draw in the reader.

News is news, even when you don’t like the topic

I’ve taken some criticism recently over some of the news I have covered.Apparently, some people think certain things do not need to be reported.They said as much in the comment section on social media.Don’t get me wrong. I champion everyone’s right to have an opinion.

Back to the sidelines

It’s time to dust off my old press pass and start plotting my routes.Fall sports are back, and my evenings are about to get very busy.In previous years, I would spend a couple of days entering all the sports schedules into my calendar.

Hide and seek

You have not lived until you have played hide-and-seek with a toddler.Over the weekend, we had some friends over for dinner.

Home-made prank

My house played a prank on me Friday night.Well, it wasn’t so much a prank as my doorknob breaking and my house refusing to let me leave.I had plans to go to a movie Friday night with some friends.

Don’t blink

They say that every time you blink, you run the risk of missing something important happening around you.Well, I must have been blinking a lot this summer.We are in the final days of July and are about to turn the calendar to August.

Learn from your mistakes

One thing I learned a long time ago in my newspaper career is that mistakes happen.You do everything you can to avoid them, but every now and then a misspelled word, the wrong photo or a typo in a headline sneaks into print.It’s the nature of the business.Our newspapers are small operations, and we...

A piece of my childhood

You never know what you’ll find when you walk into a thrift store.A few weeks ago, I wandered into one for the first time and stumbled across something that instantly took me back more than 30 years.Sitting on a shelf was the exact pocket watch I had as a kid.It featured the Tasmanian Devil from...