Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

SMILE      It's a long weekend.  Barbecues, picnics, parties, parades, summer's climax.  Enjoy. Time passes.  We all...

SHAMS        With apologies if I start sounding like an old goat, but the political conventions today are nothing like they used to be. ...

ABOUT THIS THING OF 'NATURE' AND PATHS TAKEN     The WEEKENDER:) ponders the path we choose.  Given choices, we de...

QUEEN FOUND MYSTERY SOLVED      As you may recall when last we left our bee hive there was concern that no Queen was in residence.  T...

A COUPLE OF THINGS DON'T FEEL RIGHT        Watching the reaction to Bin Laden's demise has prompted an imprecise kind of brooding. ...