The company that makes the salsa we've been using at my house for years must be under bold new leadership. Because, in short order, they apparently tampered with the recipe in a disastrous way. There was a recall. And then the stuff simply stopped showing…
She phones me with a story about her cat bringing a live bat into her home through a pet door. Nothing wrong with that, of course. But I liked it better when she shared it with me the first time, in 1998. (The cat's unusual…
You know, Don Knotts movies. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken," "The Amazing Mr. Limpet," et cetera. I'm raising my hand. But I saw them on TV. Harmless family fare, I suppose. Naive bumbler lucks into fame and gets a three-alarm girl. I wonder if anyone…
Slice answers: Cindy Peterson and several others nominated "Why don't you have kids?" as the Spokane area's most common none-of-your-business question. "Are you pregnant?" also got a few votes.
A little more than 30 years ago, I worked in a newsroom with a guy who didn't like me. I knew this because friends there were kind enough to share with me some of his comments. As I didn't happen to care for him either,…
Around lunchtime Saturday, I was walking home from a branch library. I had earphones in and was listening to the radio. It was an "On the Media" discussion of how NPR can defend itself against charges that it has a liberal agenda. Pretty interesting. I…