Nellie Blog

So long, cousin Oscar Always liked sharing a last name with him. He was an okay piano player , too, and, for all his solo talent, he didn...

Merry Christmas to those not having one (This column originally ran in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, December 24, 1994) I had a pro...

Gasp!! I am offended!! When this November 24 Non Sequitur was published, it created a brief furor on the newsgroup rec.arts.comic.strips, s...

Reviews are mixed Ziwa seems to think this stuff is fun and amusing. Des, on the other hand, has seen 9 winters and isn't that enthusias...

Telephones are a good thing! This ad ran in 1936, as the Depression receded and the phone company started to ponder how much business they h...

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...