“I don’t like spiders and snakes.” — Jim Stafford Most of us humans don’t like to be compared to a snake. “You’re a snake!” “Oh, she is such a snake!” “You snake in the grass!” No doubt, unless you’re a herpetologist, (Scrabble, anyone?) we regard snakes as ...

“C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me.” — Cookie Monster IRRATIONAL BRAIN: I want a pickup truck. RATIONAL BRAIN: But you’re not a contractor. You’re not a plower. You’re not anybody that in any way can justify owning a vehicle like that. IB: Yes, it’s true ... ...

“Call me! Call me for some overtime...call me!” — Blondie Okay, all of you who are terrible at finding things, please raise your hands. So, let’s see ... by my count, that’s exactly ... all of us. Right now, I can’t find my reading glasses (forgive the typos). This morning I ...

“You got to let go of remote control.” — Michael Franti and Spearhead My wife and I agree on most things. She’s never wrong and I’m never right, so it works out well. When we moved up here to the North Country, however, we both agreed we’d rough it ... no TV in our new ...

Like most people with ears, I’m a big fan of Hank Williams. As I was listening to him the other day, one of his more obscure songs came on that I hadn’t heard in a while and it got me thinking about where we live. The song is called “Everything’s Okay,” and while it’s meant to be ...

“The waiting is the hardest part.” — Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers I was visiting the deli counter up in heaven yesterday and they had one of those “take a number” thingies where you take one of those little slips of paper with numbers on them. When the deli man (in this ...