Til the Last Hemlock Dies

  Well, it's the last day of 2021. It's been a decent year. Victories for the Smith family were measured in pleasant occurrences. An...

 People say I'm cynical, and it may be so. The same people who say that I'm cynical tend to give me a hard time because I enjoy Chri...

  Every year Carole and I take a Halloween week vacation. We hook up the Casita and try to find a place where we can view spectacular Fall c...

Continuing essay to counter the constant erroneous corporate propaganda regarding the early days of Marvel Comics. Another thing that the Le...

  Carole and I tend to plan our vacations carefully. Some time back we were having problems with the leveling jacks on our Casita so a frien...

  Presented as the alternative to decades of propaganda. As I predicted long ago, with the death of the corporate shill known as Stan Lee, t...

I have a YouTube account. Occasionally I post video of my trips. Generally my videos are records of my vacations to places as diverse as the...

 The first time I saw LeConte Lodge was on a dayhike to the summit of Mount LeConte in 1974. I took the Alum Cave Trail to the top of the mo...

Well, I'm retired so I can pretty much head off and take a trip any time I want to. Carole, however, is only semi-retired. She already t...

  We've been busy lately. Carole retired from her job and is only working part time (she'll take full retirement in less than two ye...

I'm getting closer to completing the second of the Working Class Hero superhero novels. I was well into the book when the previous publ...

  A couple of days after we got home I walked into the sunroom and looked at something in the front yard. At first I couldn't tell what ...

We just returned from our first vacation of the year. As we often like to do, we journeyed down to Florida to swim, kayak, and snorkel in so...