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December 16, 2009

Mama's Way, Your Way ...more

December 1, 2009

The free Grand Slam breakfasts were a smashing success for Denny's - both locally and nationally. ...more

February 6, 2009

It's been more than a month and this box of "Life Can Be Sweeter" tablets is still glaring at me. ...more

February 5, 2009

Has anyone ever asked you whether you were prejudiced? For many years, my answer was yes. I held a long, unfair and unfounded prejudice against my grill. ...more

June 11, 2008

Last week I introduced my readers to what I referred to as "ring rage" that I defined as "how one feels when that little tab on the top of a can separates from the top before the top separates from the can and it takes a pair of pliers to get the top off and juice is spilled all over you in the process." Rage is violent and uncontrollable anger. It goes beyond "What's bothering you?" or pet peeves, which usually invoke such responses as the rolling of one's eyes or audible tsking. But for the sake of this article we'll consider more drastic reactions to certain stimuli as "rages," which hopefully will not progress farther than being imaginary reactions. ...more

January 12, 2008

Remember when the I-4 corridor was the key to the national elections? Rich in economic and social diversity, from Tampa Bay across the state, here was that perfect mix of Americans who could and would determine the political fate of the country. ...more

January 11, 2008

After nearly a year of supposed debates formatted like low grade television quiz shows, moderated by talking-heads asking inane and pointlessly irrelevant gotcha questions targeting the minutia of personal histories; dutifully followed by an army of pollsters, who daily report their statistical finding like variations in the weather, we are finally approaching a point of alleged decision-making in the winnowing process of selecting the presidential candidates who will compete for the presidency of the United States in a general election to be held in November of 2008. The first narrowing of the field will result from a series of coffee klatches held by the matrons and patriots of Iowa. Shortly following these conclaves the minions of the maple syrup belt, the live free or die bunch; New Hampshire, will be polled and report their collective wisdom as to which two of the various political marathoners would, in their inspired judgment, best lead the country. What is seldom discussed is that these two states will have seven and four electoral votes respectively to cast in the general election which requires the winner to aggregate at least 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538. ...more

December 29, 2007

It was Wednesday morning and Reiko Pearson was briskly pacing back and forth across her kitchen floor with utensils in hand. ...more

November 22, 2007