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Why do Christmas memories from 50 years ago still hold so much power over me? I think I know now. Christmas was a huge event for our family. At St....
by Tom Purcell on December 16, 2024 Why do Christmas memories from 50 years ago still hold so much power over me? I think I know now. Christmas was...
The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states...
by Tom Purcell on December 2, 2024 The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010,...
A story from my childhood came to mind as I read a recent ABC News report about a mother who was arrested after her son was seen walking alone to...
One of the great benefits of streaming TV is that I’m able to watch old network shows that I enjoyed while growing up in the 1970s. One of my...
When he was told he had only weeks to live, his response was telling. He was calm and at peace. At 82, he told his children he had lived much...
Get this: life expectancy has apparently hit its peak. According to msn.com, a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging finds that,...
Not until it got dark! That was the trick or treating rule my mother set down every year. She didn’t want me to embarrass her by interrupting...
When I was a 14-year-old kid in 1977, I rode my bike, played ball with my friends and had virtually no responsibility. During that same time,...
I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face when he learned about the crook who stole my British sports car. It was the spring of 1988 and I...
As a self-employed writer, I’ve become knowledgeable about how high my income taxes really are. Every now and then I like to reply to readers with...
As more Americans can do their jobs from any remote location, a trend has been to relocate from urban and suburban areas to lower-cost, rural...
I’ve been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is “The House I Live In.” Sinatra performed the...
by Tom Purcell on September 3, 2024 I've been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is "The House...
Editor’s note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” that was previously...
by Tom Purcell on August 27, 2024 Editor's note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell's humorous memoir, "Misadventures of a 1970s...
All anybody needs to know about a free economy is that it is alive and well thanks to social-media flea markets, such as Facebook Marketplace....
Why do some politicians and bureaucrats constantly forget that when governments meddle in our mostly free market that bad things happen? Vice...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has sponsored a bill to mandate paid vacations for all employees. Like so many of Bernie’s proposals, it sounds good until you...
Editor’s Note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.” The MSNBC.com article said that kids...
Bowling didn’t make the cut again. Neither will baseball and softball, ballroom dancing, pole dancing and a host of other sports be featured in the...