Our story begins in the lunch room of Low Cost Foods Supermarket on Halloween morning. Some people gathered there were plotting an evil scheme against the store manager. The group consisted of the Scary Brothers; Scary Larry, Scary Harry and Scary Gary. Their sister Scary Mary … [Read more...]

I am an open road junkie, and find few things more enjoyable than strapping my yawning, confused children into a vehicle and traversing random back roads, with no bathroom breaks. It almost always works out. Almost. Interstate 77 is a fairly mundane stretch of pavement, striking … [Read more...]

I am not a nervous flyer. I love a window seat, and I will not hesitate to lean over and look out of it from 40,000 feet in the air. Bad turbulence makes me mildly nervous for about five seconds, and I am not fond of landings, but that’s the closest I am likely to come to … [Read more...]

September is a great month. There’s still time for lots of cookouts, the beginning of football season (PREDICTION: The Buffalo Bills will win the Super Bowl this year, if all the other teams come down with an intestinal virus for the rest of the season.), and good news, … [Read more...]

One day the cows clustered in the street. Where they came from, no one knew. One morning in May they were just there in the middle of South Street, just past the bank. They were of no local herd and there was no transportation accident reported that could have explained their … [Read more...]