Take one down, pass it around ...
 A day off from work to drown yourself in beer? It could happen, if Guinness gets its way. The company has started an online petition - dubbed Proposition 3-17 -to make Saint Patrick's Day an official federal holiday, paid ...

Sit. Read. Good boy.
 I took my dog Marley - he's the mutt you see to the left, looking absolutely miserable in the bunny ears - to his first obedience class yesterday. And, as my co-worker Sonny Long predicted, it looks like I'll be the ...

Happy Easter ... now let me crack this egg on your head.
I will never forget my first Texas Easter. I think I'd been in Laredo for about eight months at that point - a Hoosier transplanted in South Texas. The culture shock was huge and I'm not even going to tug ...

Dyeing to read your fortune!
 The Easter egg. It's a pretty simple concept: you boil an egg, you dip it in dye - preferably without dyeing your fingers but hey, if it happens it happens - and set it out on display. As I drove ...