Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Lola

   At least, Lola got directly to his office. I have to fight with a “patient access center” agent to get to my doctors’ offices. You can’t get there directly. I usually drive to the offices in person. It’s easier than calling. A sad state of affairs nowadays, with most doctors belonging to large medical organizations. Here, the biggest is Northwell, which most of my doctors belong to. Other areas of the county have theirs as well—Geisinger, Bassett, Kaiser, etc.

2. 6 days ago on Stone Soup

   I hate to break it to you, kids, but it’s likely a look at your future.

3. 9 days ago on Shoe

   Loon isn’t an alien. He’s just a little “different.”

4. 10 days ago on Marmaduke

   Love the Danish flag on his tail. He is a Great Dane, after all.

5. 10 days ago on Aunty Acid

   Some people are lucky to have good genes. Most people aren’t and the golden years are more tin years. I know people who still run marathons in their 70s. My asthma makes me wiped out after mowing the lawn.

6. 12 days ago on Stone Soup

   Yes, I think middle school teaching is a calling. My daughter absolutely loves her kids. She’s usually the first one in the building every morning and among the last to leave at the end of the day. She even goes in on the weekends to get set up for the next week’s lessons and activities. She’s been doing it now for 12 years—the first six in Arizona and now in Oregon. Thank you for your compliments and prayers; both are appreciated.

7. 13 days ago on Stone Soup

   This reminded me of playing Scrabble with my daughter. We read together a lot so she had a great vocabulary, even in the early grammar school years, so she at some point started to beat me routinely. (Today, she’s a middle school English teacher.)

8. 13 days ago on Over the Hedge

   My daughter, born in 1990, loved Barney. And yes, it was a bit corny, but for preschool kids and their parents it was a good, wholesome show. She loved when we’d sing the theme song together. We had Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo in our day. I suppose they were just as corny as Barney was in the ’90s.

9. 14 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When I was a kid in Brooklyn, the kids used to do that to the city buses when it snowed. They used to call it “skitching.” I never had the nerve to try it but it was fun to watch the other kids do it.

10. 23 days ago on The Duplex

    Indeed. A bit redundant there, Eno.