Recent Comments

1. 9 months ago on Frazz

   Our version of the jingle was “when you’re down to Schlitz, you’re out of beer!”

2. 11 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Blessed are the peacemakers, for they catch hell from both sides.

3. over 1 year ago on Cornered

   One of our wedding gifts had a sympathy card on it.

4. about 2 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   For us retirees, every weekly chore seems to come around every three days.

5. over 2 years ago on The Knight Life

   Seven years ago, for my 69th birthday, my kids took me to a minor league hockey game in Des Moines. My daughter pulled some strings so that I could ride shotgun on the Zamboni. It wasn’t quite as good as getting to drive, but close.

6. over 2 years ago on Betty

   Lazy man’s load was the term my mother used. My wife gets mad when I use it to describe her mega armloads.

7. over 3 years ago on Working Daze

   I did my first BASIC programing on a little computer made by ATARI; it was pretty simple, but it gave me a feeling of power that I could tell the machine what to do and it would do it.

8. almost 4 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   About three weeks ago, we came home from the grocery store and the garage door wouldn’t open. The cause? A squirrel in the transformer. Jimmy Johnson has been looking in our windows again.

9. almost 4 years ago on Frazz

   Back in my teaching days, recess duty meant that 45 degrees in the fall had the kids huddled up by the building; same temperature in the spring had them begging to take off their coats.

10. almost 4 years ago on Candorville

    I live in the city with the offending Tyson plant, so I knew the story. I didn’t realize how far it had spread.