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  Court on child molesters: Don't ask, don't tell The Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY    c.  June 28, 1998 Five out of nine Supre...

That's me and my big brother, Rick, and my sister Fran, and Mom holding our little brother, Tony, and Pop, patting their dog, Puddles. I...

Vaska's First Birthday October 2 is Vaska's first birthday, and he's become a fine young man. He began life as a puppy in Flori...

A Minor Event of the (very) Late War (Came across these documents while researching my next historical fiction, which is set in the War of...

Aquadog at 10 months I've had ridgebacks for 25 years, and, in that time, I've known some who hated water and some who would go int...

You have a good day, too, Uncle Duke! (This piece was written in November, 1969, and was submitted to the University of Colorado Write...

A Classic Case of Boredom (Children's author and middle-school ELA teacher Kate Messner has written a brilliant column on summer readin...

Vaska at 0.667 Years Old So Vaska has turned eight months old and is closing in on nine. He's training up real well and without a lot o...

I have officially become an old crank Maybe I've just spent too much time hunched over a keyboard with my friends consisting of disembo...

"How long will it be before 'Forrest Gump' technology becomes the standard tool for spicing up news coverage?" This is t...