Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang decided to have lunch together in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 45th anniversary of their first matchup for the heavyweight championship in 1981. Lang, then a brash young challenger who taunted Balboa mercilessly before the fight, had knocked out Balboa in ...
History attributes the famous milk idiom to a Mr. James Howell, who, in 1659, included the phrase “No weeping for shed milk” in his book “Paramoigraphy (Proverbs).” But I think it was probably a mother whose toddler knocked over a cup and sent a waterfall of white cascading onto the ...
One minute I was working and the next I was not. Rather, I could not. At 10 o’clock that morning, my workday came to an abrupt halt when my home internet shut off. I knew what this was about: weeks of phone calls had failed to resolve a billing problem. Now, faced with a day of work and ...
It is almost time for hay to be taken. I have seen a couple of local farmers making hay but most have yet to get started. With it being so very wet this spring it is hardly feasible but as soon as the weather dries up a bit, I am sure they are going to get busy. I can scarcely remember a year ...
Baseball players have never been known as the blood-and-guts, play-through-the-pain guys of the sports world. That distinction goes to the football and rugby players, the wrestlers and MMA fighters, the boxers and hockey players. Right or wrong, baseball players are generally considered to ...
Q. I graduate next week! I can’t believe it. I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but now that it’s over, I feel like the last four years flew. Will you please put this in your column? I know teens read it. I want to tell them that they need to enjoy high school. Stay away from drama and ...
