Nellie Blog

ove and Honor A 1902 guide to romance, from a book I hadn't thought of for a while, until I read this wonderful posting of advice from ...

Hence the term "bird brain" Okay, I did notice that the bird feeder was getting low enough that the birds had to reach their littl...

(Mike is on vacation. In his absence, Billy is blogging.)

When $50,000 means nothing to you but class does When the Houston Texans signed veteran running back Ahman Green during the off-season, ther...

24 hours at a small newspaper I covered the Harry Potter release at our local bookstore Friday night. The party started at 10 p.m. and was v...

Small touches I realize that about 80 percent of my readership is probably already tuned into this strip, but this morning's "Watch...

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day ... "The report released today is further indication and affirmation of the failure of the politi...

A Name From the Past My house in Maine is out in the country but it's set back quite a way from the woods and I don't have the huge ...

The Master of Spin (I haven't seen "Sicko" and probably won't. Since I tend to agree with Moore's general tilt on thin...

Happy Fourth of July

Exocet Ridgeback (Actually, Ziwa is quite nimble, and as frightening as it is to have her approach at full speed, she generally manages to a...

An Iraqi girl holds her hands up while U.S. and Iraqi soldiers search her family house in Baquba early June 30, 2007. (Reuters, Goran Tomase...

As I was walkin' -- I saw a sign there And that sign said -- no tress passin' But on the other side ... it didn't say nothin...

Howard's End (A happy ending, that is) Ever since I moved Howard into a larger tank out on the back porch, I've been considering let...

A minor disturbance Brian asked how many people were at the cartoonists' presentation Saturday. It was a small but full room -- maybe 50...

Lobsters, moose and cartoonists Three of our area cartoonists -- well, none of whom was actually born here, which, in local parlance, means ...

Destry at 10 Des turns 10 this week. For Rhodesian ridgebacks, that's not young. He's probably got two or three years left at the mo...

My Senators are Republicans ... but also Mainers That cussed Yankee independence is one of the things I like best about this place. Both Sen...

Why goldfish will never rule the world "Somebody's coming! Quick! Let's all hide under the snapping turtle!" Incidentally,...

"It's damn easy to get into a war, but if it's going to be awful hard to ever extricate yourself if you get in." LBJ talks...