How is your summer going so far? It seems as if Memorial Day weekend no sooner arrives than it’s already July Fourth in the blink of an eye.Along with the annual parades, cookouts and fireworks displays to celebrate Independence Day comes the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney ...
I saw an ad for a television show the other day that feature grandparents and grandchildren answering trivia questions about pop culture from each other’s generations. It made me laugh because it reminded me of two recent incidents where there clearly was a generation gap between me and the ...
I saw a news story the other day that said Gen-Z’ers are buying old-school flip phones and either ditching their new age smartphones or leaving them at home when they go out on the town. Some of the young folks interviewed for the story said they realized they were spending too much of their ...
How’s your lawn doing? Your petunias and tomatoes? To say it’s dry across our region right now is an understatement. The latest Drought Monitor has been updated and now shows almost all of Western Pennsylvania in the abnormally dry category. We desperately need some rain, and this week’s ...
Do you like spicy food? Maybe the better question is how spicy do you like your food?We’ve been discussing this subject the past few weeks because of a strange experience we had at a downtown Pittsburgh restaurant a few months ago. I ordered a General Tso’s tofu dish, which I know can pack ...
I love clever sayings and funny sayings created by clever people. Singer Joe Walsh used the lyric, “I can’t complain but sometimes I still do,” in one of his songs. I think of that often and believe that behavior to be true about myself and most people. Poet John Lydgate wrote another ...
