Nellie Blog

A working weekend The picture above will likely be the cover of the next issue of the Rangeley Highlander. It was taken on a river about 12 ...

This was two weeks ago. This was last weekend. Autumn arrived in a week. These two pictures were taken along the same stretch of the trail w...

Life imitates comics The Speed Bump comic above ran in 2000. The story story below ran last week. Pity the poor cartoonists: The world is b...

(Thursday's "Lio" by Mark Tatulli, reminded me of this column I wrote nearly 10 years ago. The granddaughter, now in sixth gr...

A Young Man's Game A while ago, I wrote about how the Houston Texans' new runningback Ahman Green and long-time defender Jason Simm...

Stupid Web Site of the Week

Study: Editors sometimes don't quite get it I was going through some things and came across this clipping, which I wanted to scan before...

Another day at the office I've been working insane hours since my job changed temporarily. This week, we put out the usual 12-page Liver...

My friend Sherwood has been reliving his 2006 trip to Ireland in his blog , and every morning it brings this song to mind. If you're goi...

Quagmire For once, I'm agreeing with the guy.

A chip off the very old block. This is my granddaughter, playing with a dog her parents are dogsitting for. They didn't add a soundtrack...

Say hello to my li'l friend! The grass in this picture is slightly-shaggy lawn length, which gives you a feel for just how tiny this you...

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 ...