Nellie Blog

 While hair was cut, male generations were joined (This column originally ran in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, June 12, 1994, 50 ye...

Another friend from home When I wrote about my friend Bill, I mentioned one of the last times we spoke.  "It was a fine conversation, ...

Bill Pardon me if this is not as well constructed, as coherent, as my regular posts. Begin here: Bill's was the house where I didn...

Christmas 1952 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by His Old Man (see below)

 So long, Sid and Alma (This column originally ran in the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, NY, in December, 1988) I guess I won't be h...

The Speaker and the Demagogue Were walking near the reef; They wept like anything to see So many on relief: "If they would only go ...

Vaska has arrived From left, Vasily Vasilievich Orlov-Denisov , Vasily Dmitrich Denisov and Denis Vasilievich Davydov Tolstoy is acknowled...

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? ...