Twenty years ago jokes about programming the VCR abounded. If you could figure out how to do that you had pretty much conquered new technology. I’ve noticed we don’t laugh about stuff like that anymore. For some it’s probably because doing things like programming a VCR has become as second nature as buttering toast. For [...]

Now that I’ve decided to spend the year raising all my own ingredients for our Thanksgiving dinner, I have made some rather startling discoveries about turkeys. The Broad Breasted White accounts for ninety-nine percent of all the turkeys consumed in North America. A turkey bred to gain weight so fast they are no longer able [...]

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching I decided to make a New Year’s resolution for Thanksgiving. Makes perfect sense, don’t you think? I’m one of those people who think they were born in the wrong century – or at least the wrong end of it. We live in a small log house with a wood cook [...]

Lately I have been skulking around the internet going onto sites where I have no business being. I know better but I just can’t seem to help it. I tell myself to stop, that no good can come of it, but before I know it I am punching those dangerous little words back into the [...]