It’s no secret that most people, whether they’ll admit it or not, think bigger is better. And continuing in that vein, they also think taller is better, as in “tall, dark and handsome.” Not the least ironically, you’ll almost never hear anyone extolling the virtues of “short, grey ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a word maven, which I got from my mother, a word maven of the first water. For example, instead of playing patty cake, we played word games of all sorts. The earliest one took place before my tender psyche got hijacked and crushed by the American ...

I’ve always thought of the world of alternative lifestyles as a mixed bag. And why wouldn’t I, since it runs the gamut from pragmatic to lunatic. Me, I’m a guy who checks things out, reserves judgment, and then picks and chooses. But some things I’ll dismiss from the get-go, ...

As much as I like to shmooze, Compass Printing is NOT the place I do it. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t like the people there — I do. But there are two good reasons why it’s a No Shmooze Zone. First, they’re always busy. Breanna, their point person, is fun to chat ...

It was that time of the year again. Or more exactly, that time of the HALF year — time for my six-month checkup at the office of Terrible Tony Tramontano. In case you don’t know, Terrible Tony is the head hustler at his cardiology practice at our hospital. At least he’s the head ...

I’m sure there are lots of people my age who are perfectly in tune with the 21st century. But I’m not one of them. It’s the new technologies that done laid me to waste, advancing light years in mere decades and leaving me in the dust. Luckily, I don’t need most of it, so I don’t ...