I miss my dad. He died at age 94 — way back last century. He was long-lived and clung on, […]

As my wife, Bonnie, and I read Sunday’s Optic, she said, “Did you notice the grammatical error in one of […]

“Gee, Dad, I wonder if maybe I could kind of like borrow the car tonight. Some of the guys are […]

A recent column on the use of profanity and obscenity drew quite a bit of reaction. I’d written about language […]

How much might a person earn as a door holder opener? I can answer that in a heartbeat: exactly 25 […]

When we were kids — and because we were kids — we used lots of taunting phrases, the most popular […]

I’ve been called a number of things åin my life. Some of the names, at least, have even been respectable. […]

Don’t most of us use expressions that mean nothing, that can’t really explain why those combinations of letters come to […]

My mom, the late Marie Trujillo, was certainly not a woman of limitless patience. And proof of that were the […]

A 1949 Broadway musical by Rogers and Hammerstein, “South Pacific,” contains a profound song lyric. The song is “You’ve Got […]