When Anthrax Comes to Town

You would think that Mansfield, Pa., would be pretty well insulated from the nastier things in today’s world. Like anthrax. But way down in the story about the New York City man who contracted inhalation anthrax (likely from African hides) is the tidbit that the man was performing at Mansfield University, where he collapsed. A [...]

The Lill

She had us marked from the moment we walked over to her cage at the D.C. Animal Shelter a year ago. She rubbed herself against the bars, back and forth, itching for some attention.
“You can hold her if you want,” the volunteer said, “but she doesn’t like it when I pick her up.”
Leslye took the [...]

New Year’s Eve in Kunkletown

(No horses were harmed in this photograph. Happy New Year’s!)

“This is an adult house!”

Leslye and I have been half-heartedly looking around for a house this year, and we stepped up our efforts in August. Apparently we’re rather lucky at this stuff, because on a recent Tuesday evening we saw a house in Silver Spring that we really liked. After our tour, Leslye said to me, “This is an [...]

Carlow Days

Today’s Post-Gazette has this photo of freshmen girls moving into their dorm room at Carlow College University:

Those are the same rooms where an unruly bunch of Pitt freshmen - our school didn’t have dormitory space for us - moved around this time in 1988. Brings back fond memories, probably even for Chris.