A few weeks ago, my wife and I were watching the DVD of Titanic, when she suddenly – WAIT A…
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were home watching the movie Titanic when she suddenly hit the pause…
A grocery store clerk handed me a two-dollar bill the other day with my other change. My immediate thought was that the bill was bogus. After all, you so rarely see one that’s it easy to forget it is legal tender. But it’s got Thomas Jefferson’s face on it. However, if you ever receive a three or four-dollar bill – with the faces of Millard Fillmore and Zachary Taylor on them – be very suspicious.
Pat Cashman/Writer’s Block
There’s enough inherent drama in next week’s presidential inauguration that you might think it wouldn’t be necessary for the TV…
Pat Cashman/Writer’s Block
It was a dark and stormy night. Plenty of lousy novels have begun that way, so why not a lousy column?
Here’s a headline for you: “A NEW STUDY HAS COME OUT!” Now that you’ve been thoroughly startled, let me give you the stunning details.
While out for a jog the other day (a jog that turned into a sprint when a German shepherd came after me), I noticed a “For Lease” sign sitting in the empty window of a failed restaurant. After the dog got distracted and ran after a bicyclist, I strolled back to the restaurant and peered in the window.
My granduncle was the oldest man I had ever seen. His name was Father William Cashman, and I guessed his age at 500 or 600 years, but that was just a guess. He may have been older.
When I was a teenager, I remember watching TV at Dean Cartmill’s house. Dean was my best friend and one of the most even-tempered people around. Nothing seemed to make him angry. But on that particular occasion, Dean’s dad sauntered into the TV room and greeted us with “Hi, girls.” I didn’t think much of it. I figured he was just being funny.
