Category Archives: Mild-mannered opinion

reluctant clocks

gremlins have dropped by our snowbound house taking a mad March break from playing havoc with aircraft and fiddled with our clocks quite a picture mad March gremlins using our clocks for violins in some zany orchestra up in the … Continue reading

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The Morale of Weather Forecasters II

Yesterday’s freezing rain that stopped all school buses was actually a warm sunny dry spell that forced children to play outside on a school day. Poor children. Today’s freezing rain that stopped all school buses was actually cold blowing snow … Continue reading

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ooth care

Pehaps Pearldrops was first to refer to a Doctor of Dental Surgery as a “denis”, when the smiling girl with bright white teeth told me right on TV to “see your denis” for “whi(t)er, smoother (t)eeth”. Recently, the makers of … Continue reading

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