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Merry Christmas to one and all. I hope you got to see the team of reindeer on your roof last night. On Donner. But then. More than anything. There is Prancer. Yeah, baby.

Happy Christmas EVE. Not like, Eve, the person. I don’t know anyone named Eve, after all.No. I meant Happy Christmas on the night before Christmas. Do the reindeer show up on your roof on Christmas Eve? Are the cookies eaten this night? Or does Santa do all the delivering on Christmas, after midnight? Who out

Years ago, conspiracy theories used to be fun. I mean, there was the whole big phenomenon around some of them. Most of these continue, with the likes of the Bigfoot followers, the Loch Ness believers, the UFO watchers. In some cases, as in the UFOs, recent evidence may support many of these claims. At any

It is getting so close to Christmas I thought I would spend a sovereign moment to talk about a certain birth. Not THAT birth. But the birth of Colo. She was the first gorilla born in captivity. It happened on this very date, December 22, 1956. This good girl entered the world right here in

I love a crossword puzzle. The real crossword puzzles, not to be confused with other word games, like seek-and-find, or those code-breaker things. Crosswords: Clue: Four-across, five letters, “kind of cat.” Answer: Tabby Those kinds of crosswords. I get this from my dad. Every night, after all was said and done, when all the dishes

The day I speak of happened in 1965. I was only one and a half years old at the time, so I didn’t even know who Branch Rickey was then. But that is who died that day, December 9, 1965. Rickey was 83 years old at the time and had been in the hospital having

We all know the story. Most of us have seen at least one movie version of it or perhaps a community play of the same title — A Christmas Carol. It was written a long time ago, some 179 years, and published on this date, December 19, 1843. Of course, the great author, Charles Dickens,

In another lifetime, I used to work in downtown Dayton at a chain of smoke shops. That’s what they were called, a carryover from older days. But we were really a glorified snack shop that sold many sundries. My aunt and uncle owned the stores, and they did quite well. I think there were five