A Strong Dose of Vitamin Fred

Today's topic is: How Captain Marvel was ruined, phase three. By Captain Marvel I mean the one that comes into being when Billy Batson s...

I have a coffee mug from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild that was a Secret Santa gift. It features the first lines of famous works of lit...

"Max, Grandpa doesn't have much time. Hurry down. He wants to see you." Sure enough, Grandpa had taken a turn. He lay...

"Yes, sorry about the move, but I got to thinking, 'If I'm so wise, why am I freezing my hinder off on this mountain?"...

Went to the Vigil Mass last night, because Palm Sunday usually gets a crowd and the Mass can run a good hour and a half. It's a tough Ma...

[NB: This was an entry I had written for the old, defunct Blog.com blog five or more years ago. I came across it on my hard drive and didn...

One bit of weather wisdom my mom always said -- when appropriate; she didn't just go around repeating it all the time -- was: "Mack...

"Don't force!" was the oft-repeated lesson of my wife's late father.  Seems to defy the zeitgeist, doesn't it? ...

Lately it seems like everyone wants my opinion. Everyone wants a piece of Fred. They finally realize that my lifetime of experience has give...

A young man climbed the mountain upon which lived the Wise One. Everyone knew that the Wise One was indeed the wisest man ever known, and...