Nellie Blog

Waiting for the vacuum cleaner, or someone like him I had two granddaughters over for dinner and a movie the other night. After they left, ...

I don't know why you say good-bye, I say hello Zee, that lovely, gentle girl, is suddenly gone, and there's not much to be said abo...

Liars, damned liars and Fox News Fox News has outdone themselves, decrying Barack Obama's children's book because it included Sit...

Si mi quieres escribir, ya sabes mi paradero Actually, what I meant to say was not "If you want to write to me, you know where to fin...

Al Jazeera analyzes the Wikileaks files Okay, this is just under an hour long. Hardly the sort of thing you click on as part of your mornin...

In which Juan escapes the NPR Sweatshop First of all, the volume of feigned outrage and deliberately false information being voiced over th...

Ay Caramba! I haven't watched the Simpsons in years, but here's the opening from last Sunday's show, which was created by an E...

Have a little sample under the counter I've just posted the first three chapters of my new serial, "Hooch," at www.teachup.co...

Too little, too late? I worry that my speech today is too little, too late. I worry that many Americans have already formed their opinio...

Larry the Animal I doubt that Larry the Animal thought twice when he saw the lineup of motorcycles outside the Bonnie Doon, sporting colors...

What if people judged gun owners the way  they judge Muslims? What if all gunowners were judged by the actions  of a crazed, dangerous few? ...

Laboring on Labor Day I had a break this week in my normal duties, as the youth publication I edit for the Denver Post was taken over by t...

Now that he's gone ... The hurricane having blown past my most northeasterly friend without having done any significant damage, I can ...

Will someone please explain to this mother that a mosque would be an insult to the victims of 9/11? (photo by Platon, published on-line by ...

(This column first ran in the Press-Republican in January, 1998.  The cartoon is by John Sherrfius of the Boulder Daily Camera.) The Myth...

The anniversary has never gone unmarked. Nor have our lives.   Please use your seat belts.

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When the road was sometimes longer than the love (Part Two) I can't remember the name of the truck stop at the intersection of I-80 an...