Excuse me, ma'am - but your earrings really bug me.
 The Associated Press reported that a couple of teens in Sandwich, Mass. are really starting to bug people. No, literally. Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan have started selling earrings and necklaces made out of lacquered cicada carcases. Cullinan's mom gave them ...

Food For Thought For the Fourth
 The Fourth of July is just around the corner and I can almost taste the burgers and hot dogs being grilled in our backyard. I don't know what it is about the holiday that just screams for time outside, ...

Candy land, princess parties and cake. Who could ask for a better weekend?
 My best friend's little girl, Rebecca, turns four on Monday, so I'll be making the trek back to Laredo this weekend for her princess-themed, pizza-laiden, pinata-bashing party. It cracks me up, though, because now that beautiful baby girl is old enough to ...

A math project from someone who hates math
So we're a few weeks into summer and, while I'm sure that means we've got kiddos out there sleeping in and getting their fills of cartoons and ice cream, I'd almost bet money there are just as many parents out ...

These numbers just don't add up
I'll admit I love Sudoku just as much as the next guy. The number game is a good pastime on car trips, it's something to do on your lunch break and it's like Mad Libs without all that, "I need ...

I like my horse. My horse likes me.
Right about now, school children throughout Victoria are anxiously tapping their fingers on their desktops, glaring at a clock that's ticking away at a snail's pace. You guessed it, the last day of school is upon us. And while I'm ...

Chalk it up to summer fun
 There's no denying it: with this humid heat, Texas summer must be on its way.  And while I'm not looking forward to the sweltering weather it did have me thinking back to my summers in Indiana. My sister, friends and ...

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...
So I promised an update on how obedience classes for that disobedient dog of mine have gone. And let me tell ya - it's going to be a bumpy ride. During week one, Marley seemed to be doing OK ...

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 ...