This coming weekend is Memorial Day which semi-officially opens the summer season. It’s often the weekend when people get their boats out on the water for the first time of the season. Many go camping for the first time of the year. Most schools around here are out for the summer by Memorial ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we ...

Last Saturday, I drove “up north” and attended my granddaughter's lacrosse game. It was fun. Ten-year-old Scout has embraced the sport. She runs back and forth on the field with intensity. And, she scores. I get worn out just watching. Some of you readers may not know that lacrosse is the ...

I noticed in the news that I had missed an event over the weekend. I’m wondering if you missed it too. The event was on Saturday. It was World Naked Gardening Day. I learned that this event is generally held the first Saturday of May. Evidently, this event was started in 2005. So this means ...

Last Sunday, someone sent me a nice, positive sentiment. It was an anonymous text message. This was the message, “Hope you’re surrounded by nice energy.” I get these positive, anonymous messages occasionally. I suspect many of you do as well. My routine is to immediately delete such ...

There’s a possibility, maybe even a probability, that more people than usual will be stirred up a little by today’s column. I don’t know. I could be wrong (but I seldom am, ha ha). I know there’s a lot of different opinions relative to animals. So that fact makes me feel a little bit ...

Easter is coming up this weekend. I wonder how many Sanpeters could explain what the origin and significance of Easter is if we stopped them on the street and asked. Jay Leno used to do this kind of thing with his “Jay Walking” segment during his tenure on “The Tonight Show.” Fairly ...

Do you know what the longest word is in the English language? Some of you might say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And, you’d be technically correct. (I’d really like to hear someone actually say that word without stumbling, pausing and stuttering.) That word is the name of ...

Is baseball like life? My answer to the question that is the title of this column is a resounding, confident, “I don’t know!” But let’s talk a little baseball anyway. As the years go by, I’ve learned that the answer to many questions that come my way is, “I don’t know.” And ...

According to astronomers, last Thursday was the first day of spring. By the way, did you know that an anagram of the word “astronomer” is “moon starer.” Use the letters in the word and you’ll see that it’s true. (I suppose that staring at the moon makes a person some sort of an ...