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I would love to revolutionize your Thanksgiving Day speeches, but I must admit that the blessings I feel gratitude for are embarrassingly mundane. I...
‘Give me that old-time religion, give me that old-time religion…” I can still hear classmate Ronald Bright launching into an impromptu...
If you designed a banner declaring, “The world is full of crazies” and ran it up the flagpole, assuredly, I would salute it. On the other hand, as...
According to the National Retail Federation (motto: “Proudly middlemansplaining since 1911”), Americans set a Halloween spending record of $12.2...
My handy-dandy “column topic radar” lit up when I encountered an internet article called “12 Phrases You’re Using That Make You Sound...
‘Telling Our Stories.” That’s the 2024 theme of National Newspaper Week (October 6-12). Newspaper employees are being encouraged to share with...
by Danny Tyree on September 25, 2024 Tyrades! by Danny Tyree My parents used to talk about the county's farmers streaming into town on Saturday and...
Only a handful of the network TV series debuting 50 years ago this autumn managed to survive two or more seasons. But how many would have existed at...
For decades, my mother (who was a veterinarian’s assistant during my childhood) gloated about her visit to my third-grade classroom. The dignified...
My bachelor Uncle Vernon refused to make out a last will and testament. Twenty-one years ago, he passed away unexpectedly. That left his beloved (but...
I’m sure the summer break will fly by faster than the drone my son Gideon has been maneuvering. Gideon recently received his bachelor’s degree in...
Sock it to meee?” That awkward query by presidential candidate Richard Milhous Nixon (on the September 16, 1968, episode of “Rowan and Martin’s...
The rhythm-and-blues-tinged 1962 Ray Charles album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.” John Travolta’s mechanical-bull-riding...
Somewhere over the years, karma gave me the finger. It all started with an incident in Mrs. Jones’s high school English class. Classmate Tracy...
Although I receive three or more official doctor’s office blood pressure readings annually, I have procrastinated about regularly assessing my blood...
A recent news development has left some folks scandalized and others envious. (And still others grumbling, “I don’t need no stinking news...
‘I’ve been everywhere, man/I’ve been everywhere, man…” – as sung by Hank Snow. I was overjoyed to hear that one of my high school...
‘Don’t you dare call me without texting first!” blared a recent headline in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, forget about Taiwan and other...
Some fathers are entirely too serious. They’re paranoid about their children finding out that they had their own youthful indiscretions and...
June 7 will be a bittersweet day in TV history, as the final “Wheel of Fortune” hosted by Pat Sajak airs. Sajak announced his retirement plans a...
Tyrades! Yes, I was hunkered down paying rapt attention to the weather report on May 8 when an EF-3 tornado rampaged through a neighboring county....
As I sit here admiring my 88-cent container of mustard, I can’t help feeling self-conscious. I know that restaurants advertise their “value...
Bathroom floor tiles that weigh you, analyze your gait and evaluate your fall risk. Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on...
During my career as a late-in-life columnist, I have been blessed with the opportunity to chronicle three birthdays ending in zero. (My so-called...
You probably have quite a few co-workers with whom you exchange chitchat, banter and superficial observations on current events. (“I fervently...
It’s probably not the Easter message you expected, but for the sake of argument, let’s set aside miracles, repentance, heaven, hell and claims of...
Well, THOSE eagerly anticipated revelations certainly crashed and burned. You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that...
You probably crave a break from my patented “sour grapes” routine, but we must face facts: spring break (a.k.a. Easter break, a.k.a. mid-term...
By Danny Tyree As a writer, I can't deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet...there's...
As a writer, I can’t deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet…there’s something...
‘I accept full responsibility.”’ In your lifetime you’ve doubtless heard umpteen public figures (elected officials, bureaucrats, corporate...
What an amazing coincidence! Two days after Apple released its much-ballyhooed Vision Pro contraption, Joni Mitchell gave her first Grammy Awards...
While struggling to find a suitable angle for this Valentine’s Day essay, I lucked upon some “Reader’s Digest” clickbait. The article talked...
Are truancy officers about to get help in fighting absenteeism? According to the New York Post, the Ohio legislature is considering a bipartisan pilot...
Despite my best preventive measures, I have spent decades enduring the “stillgottas.” If you are unfamiliar with the medical terminology, it’s...
Oh, for simpler times with fewer adult responsibilities and fewer high-tech distractions! Then I might manage to finish reading two excellent...
Okay, maybe I’m approaching this from a position of privilege. One of my earliest memories is of tagging along to my mother’s former grammar...
‘Just when you think it’s safe to be a jerk on the roadway…” Motorists in many cities have grown accustomed to the likelihood of having their...
‘The right place at the right time.” I realize that not everyone recognizes Jesus Christ as the Son of God (or even a real person); but for...
A course is a course, of course of course … Or is it? According to those madcap bean-counters at the National Golf Foundation, the number of...
It was never as high-profile as “Rudolph” or “Frosty,” but it’s worth noting that the animated special “The Bear Who Slept Through...