If asked, I usually tell people that I stopped caring about baseball on Oct. 14, 1992. That’s the night Sid Bream, a former Pirate playing for the Atlanta Braves, slid across home plate with the winning run that knocked the Buccos out of the NLCS.But with all the activity last week ...
Merry Christmas!“What?” you say. “It’s barely fall! Allow me to put up cornstalks and ghosts and goblins before forcing me make my bushes twinkle!”Believe me, I agree wholeheartedly. Therefore, I took satisfaction in seeing an article last week that looked at “holiday creep.” ...
I look forward each year to seeing the new words added to the latest editions of dictionaries. That’s because I don’t know enough words.I’m kidding. I can’t even use all the words I know. When it comes to vocabulary, I try to follow Mark Twain’s advice: “Don’t use a 5-dollar word ...
Summer might be winding down, but there’s still time for ice cream. I guess that everyone has a favorite flavor. Growing up in New Brighton, mine was Hank’s Frozen Custard’s banana. Now that I’m older, however, my taste has matured. How about something with “just a hint of tobacco ...
Wow! We’re into August already. Used to be that summer was a time to slow down, take a vacation, lounge in the back yard. But this year’s summer has been very stress-inducing: heat waves; droughts; flash floods; record-high inflation; a new strain of COVID.Plus we have the revelations put ...
I can’t help but feel that the Pittsburgh Steelers missed a great opportunity by granting naming rights for the former Heinz Field to a Michigan-based financial services company called Acrisure. $150 million over a 10-year period? Geez! I would have let Art Rooney II put a Pittsburgh Steelers ...
