MORE than a little wing, there. We’re at the Midway Park and Fly for an overnight check-in and Chris, a man-of-girth parking attendant, has lifted my carry-on to the shuttle. "Wha’cha’ flying?" he asks FD. "AirTran." "AirTran it is." Yes, AirTran has wooed us away from American, at least when ...

Hmmm ... It's was in the genes, perhaps ... The grandfather steals the skull of a great Indian leader ... The grandson steals an election (well, two elections) ... Both, it can be said, robbed the country. Geronimo’s Heirs Sue Secret Yale Society Over His Skull Geronimo died a prisoner of war at F...

There are so many things in the news tonight … my god, do you see the ass on Jessica Simpson?  I just couldn’t pick one thing to blog about.  So, let me recap some of the shit that went down these past few days. John Updike died today - Sadly, I have never read a book of his in my life...

Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reports that an upcoming Season 5 episode of Lost will introduce us for the first time to Jack’s grandfather. The season’s seventh episode, titled “3:16,” will mark the first appearance of this character; actor Raymond Barry has b...

Growing up, I only ever got to know one grandparent really well; Mama Luta (we just called her Mama), my grandmother on mom’s side of the family. Mama passed away over four years ago. Mama’s husband – as far as I’m aware – passed away before I was born. I never got to know him....

I received my Harpers Weekly Review email this morning and as always it contains a ton of interesting info in just a couple of paragraphs.  To give you an idea of how they do it I've included one paragraph below and put in bold what I found to be the most interesting item: It was reported that Bara...

That’s not really enough to show my appreciation for the job that you guys do.  The best I can do is share one of my favorite stories my grandfather wrote down for us.  I’ve posted a couple of things he wrote before in different contexts.  This is a short one about two “feasts&#...

Hi everyone, This morning at work I got a message on my cell;  it was my mother, she told me that my grand father died this morning at 6.20 am... I had to leave my job early today because I was too sad to keep on working. My Grandfather had been sick almost one year, so it was expected this wou...

What happens when your child comes home from school, holding a Father’s Day gift that he made in class, without a father to give it to? Do you simply tell him that he needs to throw it away, because he doesn’t have a father? Do you get angry at the teacher for being so insensitive to the...

This would be ZacBrowser, which John LeSieur, who owns a software business, created for his 6-year-old autistic grandson, Zachary. The “whirldwind of options” on a computer were too much for Zachary who “threw the mouse in frustration.” From today’s ABC News: The Zac Br...