“I believe I’ll write some Celtic music,” said Dud one morning at the world dilemma think tank down at the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying it.” “I didn’t know you were Celtic,” Steve said. “I’m not, but I do get occasional bouts of depression and that qualifies me. I’ve thought about it a lot. Maybe [...]
“I believe I’ll write some Celtic music,” said Dud one morning at the world dilemma think tank down at the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying it.” “I didn’t know you were Celtic,” Steve said. “I’m not, but I do get occasional bouts of depression and that qualifies me. I’ve thought about it a lot. Maybe [...]
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS LUCASVILLE (AP) — Ohio on Wednesday executed a man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard in 1994 at the end of a multistate crime rampage as witnesses of a second slaying victim of that rampage looked on intently. Frederick Treesh received a single powerful dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced [...]
For The Madison Press “Do you know what I learned from this child?” asked one host father. “That you can live together and not understand what the other is saying, and yet still communicate and learn to love each other.” Comments like this from a local family sum up the joy which can result [...]
Last week, I wrote about our cat chasing after a red laser light that we flash on the floor and the wall and the fact that he couldn’t “catch” it. He’s really funny to watch, but he thinks he can catch the red dot. He’s running after something we would call “elusive.” I also said, [...]
It’s February. It’s mostly cold and gray and I dislike the gray days the most even over the cold. I must be part plant because the lack of strong sunlight affects my total being. Maybe I should have been a bear so I could sleep through these cold, dark months of winter. Actually, in a [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit. Then when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in some places [...]
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2013. There are 319 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than [...]
