The town that I live in used to have an Independence Day Parade.  We still have a concert and fireworks, but the parade has gone the way of the dinosaur, candy cigarettes and inexpensive gasoline.  One year, the volunteer firemen decided the parade had...

I didn’t realize just how hard it was going to be to pick a winner. Some of you wrote blog posts about the weirdness in your home town.  Some of you revealed the oddities in the form of a comment on my blog.  And some of you whined that there’s...

Thanks to your various comments and posts,  my head is jam-packed with weird facts about home towns and home states all across America and beyond.  For example, I now know that Corbin, Kentucky is the home of the first KFC.  (And the Colonel's second...

It began as an exercise in finding the dead body, just a few sentences posted here some time back, commemorating a visit to Baltimore.  Now it's a short story.  Learn what happens when Gilligan Finds a Body, now available in the summer issue of...

It began as an exercise in finding the dead body, just a few sentences posted here some time back, commemorating a visit to Baltimore.  Now it's a short story.  Learn what happens when Gilligan Finds a Body, now available in the summer issue of...