Month: March 2010
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Why my dad married my mom, I think
IT’S A PRETTY GOOD LOVE STORY, my mom and dad. As I have mentioned before, every Thanksgiving Dad tells the story of how they first met. This is how it…
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Welcome to Neologismia and other made-up words
ALL MY COLUMNS ARE WRITTEN IN WORDS. Mostly the same old words (e.g., the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, I). This gets boring for me, so I am…
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Chapel Hill’s problem is Chapel Hill
THE PROBLEM WITH CHAPEL HILL is often it doesn’t seem to know that it is the problem with Chapel Hill. (By Chapel Hill I don’t mean the all the town’s…
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It’s little ol’ me versus the killer deer
I AM AT WAR WITH THE DEER. Over the years I have killed two of them — but, understand, they were trying to kill me first. Back when it was…