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All good storytellers know to start at the beginning and go from there. But covering the 7-year gap since my last blogging activity and for a few years before that my postings were so occasional as to constitute fruitless attempts … Continue reading →

Of course you’ve read the latest Harry Potter book Order of the Pheonix, but have you read Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, in which Harry encounters sweet and sour rain, becomes a hairy troll, and joins Gandalf to re-enact scenes from … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City dog owners who worry that their furry friends need some stress management have a new option: yoga for dogs.   Sorry, lady, but I don’t think your dog is doing Yoga……

Sylvia by Nicole Hollander

In just a little over 48 hours, 317,647 members voted, making this vote larger than both the New Hampshire Democratic primary and Iowa caucuses combined. Here are the vote totals and percentages, when voters are asked to choose one candidate: … Continue reading →

Researchers from Stanford and the University of Toronto have found that receiving a traffic ticket reduces a driver’s risk of dying in a crash by 35 percent. From the June 28th edition of “Lancet”

Mr. Gobbles, a wild turkey, appeared mysteriously in Kendall Square, Cambridge, over three months ago.  Even stranger, the bird seems to be under the protection of federal officials from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center…… Mr. Gobbles even has a … Continue reading →

width=”185″ height=”119″ alt=> Duane "Dog" Chapman, a 50-year-old, Hawaii-based bounty hunter, his brother Timothy and his son Leland were arrested along with Shells and Krutonog on June 18, about two hours after the group captured convicted rapist Andrew Luster near … Continue reading →

A once-a-day pill for everyone over 55 could undo some of the ill-effects of our sedentary, high-cholesterol, western lifestyle and slash the rate of strokes and heart attacks by more than 80%, doctors said yesterday.

Airline pilots aren’t the only ones clamoring to carry guns to work. Front-line teachers, increasingly in the line of fire, are arming themselves, where else but in that cauldron of urban violence, “Salt Lake City”.