My nemesis, Buffalo News person Jeff Simon. Someone stop him ( Read more... )

People on Facebook are posting one thing each day in November for which they are thankful. Not sure if they are going to stop at Thanksgiving or go all the way to 11/30. It will be interesting to see how far this goes, since they've covered their families, friends, and God and have started posting, "My car." I understand being thankful for a car ( Read more... )

Restore from saved draft which I thought was important enough to write but not to post ( Read more... )

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Update from my last important newsy post: my favorite shirt is holding up semi-well. The left sleeve hem is on its road to fraydom, though. I could probably make an exception to my No Garment Shall Be Handwashed policy, to prolong Shirty's life. That was my first use of the term "Shirty" and I don't plan for it to stick. Unlike "Trashy," my ( Read more... )

Great news--I was able to extend the life of my favorite shirt. The bottom hem was frayed, I knew it wouldn't make it through too many more wash cycles. I considered taking it out of the usual rotation, like relegating a starting pitcher to middle relief. Instead, I took a huge risk by tearing off the hem altogether. I knew I might ruin it, ( Read more... )

Jeff Simon, Buffalo News Arts Editor has this to say in his tribute to Andy Rooney ( Read more... )

My Aunt Yolanda died August 22nd. Though she was 88 years old, she could have passed for 65. She'd had many heart surgeries over the years, including quintuple bypass in 1987. In the end, it was a brain aneurysm--sudden and painless. She was talking to her sister Alice on the phone, and said, "I feel dizzy... I need to lie down"...Aunt Alice ( Read more... )

Are you kidding me? The Yankees lost?!?!?! Why do I think that if I had stayed up for the game, they would have won ( Read more... )