Nellie Blog

The other shoe has dropped Well, eight weeks after I was told my time at the paper was ending, the boss finally came by Friday and pulled th...

When did empathy become a bad thing? Senator: "I'd like to ask you why you want this job?" SUPREME COURT NOMINEE THOMAS: ...

Our hearts were touched by fire Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., delivered Memorial Day, 1884, at John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Rep...

Semper Paratus “Sometimes the public recognition isn’t always expected – or necessarily welcomed. Specialist Zachary Boyd recently was enjoy...

Comedy isn't pretty A number of years ago, I was invited to speak to a college writing class on the topic of freelancing. I brought alon...

Update I still seem to be employed. At least, I keep showing up and doing the work and they keep paying me. Nothin' much more to report...

Goodbye to a good friend Nobody loved kids more than Destry. When I was at the Post-Star in Glens Falls, part of my job was giving tours of ...

The Fairy Wife This is one of my favorite stories of the series, a bittersweet tale of the impossible marriage between mortal and immortal. ...

The Dog, The Cat and the Mouse In this Romanian folk tale, we learn the source of the enmity among these animals. Naturally, lawyers were in...

Sparrow and Woodpecker This week, weeklystorybook.com features one of my favorites of the series, a Japanese story about two sisters with v...

Gathering the gang Paige (second from the right) came over today for a final get together before she leaves for her new parish in San Diego....

Happy 10th Anniversary It's been 10 years since schools began to lock their doors and make visitors sign in. The best commentary I can m...

Don't let EITHER of these people speak at Notre Dame!

Holy Week and the Perils of Irony An old college buddy dug this up from his basement, scanned it and sent it along. It originally ran in the...

The ice is pretty much off the lake (A good time to remember why I came here .)

In which two old men attempt to explain the world without losing their values (Yesterday, I was twice reminded of this column that I wrote b...

The Tulip Nursery This is one of two stories in this series that qualify as "fairy tales" but that are much more in tune with the ...