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All's well that ends well This news clip, about a Georgia town where a police officer halted sidewalk sales of Girl Scout cookies at a ...

For Esme - With Love and Milk Bones Vaska's "aunt" Esme, seen above beating the living bejabbers out of him shortly before he...

 Arlo Guthrie, Colorado Springs, Nov. 1980 This interview appeared in the Colorado Springs Sun, Nov. 21, 1980. The photos are by Scott Wrig...

Why isn't this a more common sight? These aren't starving African children at an aid station, eating donated rice. They aren't ...

 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...