Dept. of Nance

P erhaps you remember last year during The Holidays when I was victimized by my house .  How my refrigerator quit right before Thanksgiving...

  M ay you find the magic of the holiday and may it last the whole year through.    Merry Everything from the Dept. of Nance .

Picture found here T he horrific tragedy in Connecticut has affected me--as I'm sure it has so many of you--on a variety of levels. ...

N ot this.  Ever.

D aniel Day-Lewis, who is doing a stunning turn as President Abraham Lincoln in the Spielberg film Lincoln , is known for craving privacy....

  P art of Thanksgiving this year meant having a long weekend with Jared, my eldest.  He works at a job which gave him Thanksgiving and F...

S cene opens on interior of living room.  Rick and Nance are on the couch.  It is approximately 8 PM.  Suddenly, in a move completely unchar...

Q uick!  Grab a Moment Of Zen right now because thanks to Halloween being Officially Over, THE HOLIDAYS ARE UPON US! I need room for al...

R ecently, I went on a lovely jaunt south to Virginia, where I met up with Shirley and Veronica .  These ladies kindly played Tour Guide ...

A t this point in October in Ohio, I don't know what I grow more weary of, Halloween or The Politics.  Last night while trying to enjo...

T oday in NEO it was a golden autumn day.  We had temperatures early in the afternoon that peaked in the high seventies.  There was a br...

Go here for the story of Gordon, the man pictured " T he institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abo...

H ere in the Midwest we are often considered staid, provincial, even boring.  We owe our very existence to two rather pedestrian and mundan...

"A word is dead when it's been said, some say.  I say it just begins to live that day."--Emily Dickinson O h, Miss Emily!  ...

T his post will be sort of a Dept. of Nance mixtape (or mash-up, for my younger readers who are of A Generation who have no grasp of what ...