In the fall of my senior year at UAH, I was an intern at Champion International Corporation in Courtland. It was a large paper mill, on the river a couple of miles west of the nuclear plant. (A lot of the structure is still there, but the mill changed ownership and then closed several years … Read more
(No spoilers.) The boys and I are just back from my now well-established favorite way to see a movie: a first-thing-Saturday-morning showing. (This is even highly crowd-resistant for blockbusters, it would seem.) Lea wanted to see Solo: A Star Wars Story with us but was sadly a little under the weather. (That’ll make our first … Read more
Roseanne Barr was once “only” a stand-up comic—and she was a good one. Alas, it seems being a good stand-up comic is a major risk factor for being, if you’ll pardon the insensitive expression, out of your damned mind. Sometimes it seems relatively innocuous. Frequently, it’s destructive. Roseanne is definitely in the latter category. Recently … Read more