

The Hallmark Channel: Christmas Cure for Curmudgeons
If you’re a curmudgeon then Christmas is a tough time of year. All the Christmas music that starts after Halloween, the caroling, the...


Knuckleheads not Leatherheads
George Clooney starred in a movie a few years back called Leatherheads about pro football players in the 1920s in the glory days before...


Tears for the Curmudgeon
Tears don’t become men of certain age. One of the benefits to living this long is life toughens you sometimes to detriment. I will...


The Day of Eating Dangerously
This is day of eating dangerously. Thanksgiving is a two belt loop adjustment, a time to warn your teeth and gums repeatedly to look out...


Luv ya, Blue
On the eve of Monday Night’s matchup between the storied Steelers of the rest of my household and the Faceless Franchise that is my...


The Interview That Got Away: L.O. Hallmark
What did you do in the war, Daddy? That’s a question that on a day like today, Veteran’s Day, I deeply wish I had asked of my father. ...


The Punxsutawney Phils of Politics
Hope springs eternal in the human breast in the spring when the grass is fresh on the fields of baseball dreams. Now, as we deepen into...










































