Nellie Blog

  Being Stupid Can Be Taxing (originally published in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, December 6, 1988)  So here's how it all s...

Christmas on the Air I've worked a few Christmases, mostly during my years in the newsroom, but the most memorable was 30 years ago ton...

Tales from the backshop (This column originally ran in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, March 24, 1996) Today, the term "boilerp...

  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...