Nellie Blog

Cultural literacy Sleepy Hollow (1999) -- A Colonial-era constable probes a series of grisly decapitations in an upstate New York hamlet. ...

Ziwa's fashion show These days, Ziwa wears a blaze orange vest when we walk on the Whistlestop Trail. Des has only an orange collar, bu...

No Regrets After I updated my last blog to note the death of Norman Mailer, it occurred to me that I had a letter from him kicking around in...

Newspaper Correction of the Month (If Not Year) By Editor & Publisher Staff NEW YORK A reader, Howard Bailen, sends along the...

Aw, Scooby, you're the only one who really gets it.

Easiest Decision of the Week We're in the process of hiring an editor for our weekly, which would reduce my workload down to editing TWO...

My favorite also-ran ( Aaaargh: after getting some very nice comments, I discovered that I had a faulty list of years -- it had listed her ...

Photographing Four Here is a photograph of my four granddaughters, taken at the littlest one's first birthday party yesterday in Vermont...

Mr. Big Stuff I go through a certain routine each morning, with about 20 stops all set up in tabs on my Firefox page. This morning, I visite...

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...