Dept. of Nance

I t was with some Wonder and Astonishment that I realized the Dept. of Nance is Fourteen this August 2019. This will be my 795th post here,...

T oday finds me restless and a little bit fussy. I might have to go to Target just to feel smug about all the Back-to-School stuff on disp...

H ey, July! You're not going to sneak away before I get one last quickie blogpost out there. But I'm tired and I have a little c...

S ometimes, I think back to The Olden Times when things were Very Sad, like when my cell phone did not have a camera I could use easily. Now...

S eventeen years ago Rick had his first back surgery. That summer, the boys were teenagers, seventeen and fourteen. They were a big help t...

A bout a hundred years ago when I was in third grade, we used to get The Weekly Reader, a little kid newspaper that we read as a class. E...

T his week we toss in a little bit of everything, from Parenting to Getting Stuff Done to Whatever Lies Between. A few of you decided to s...

T his week we leave the homey atmosphere of the kitchen and its focus on cooking and head into perhaps the living room or coffee shop boo...

G osh, I do hope you all managed to Live Your Lives without helpful Sentences to assist you and make you Change Powerfully For The Better ...

B efore I try to change all of your lives with this week's Sentence, I want to ask you to help me with next week's post. We'v...

W hereas last week's Sentence That Will Change Your Life was more than a Sentence, this week's isn't even a Sentence. It...

I 'm not even going to pretend that this week's Sentence has the potential to Change Your Life. It's so shopworn, so banal, ...

A s dejected as we all are by our lives remaining Unchanged from last week's first Sentence that was supposed to Change Our Lives For Th...

A bout a hundred years ago I found an audaciously titled article online that I read immediately, despite the fact it was so obviously clic...

S o much is...happening here that I can't even talk about it. But it's real, and it's astonishing, isn't it?

L ongtime Readers here at the Dept. know these two things about me already, but for any New Readers, I will provide you with the Short Vers...

S ome Smartypants Thinkerhead once advised that if you are ever angry at someone, you should write him or her a letter. In that letter y...

I t's March, and as a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio, I know this means Zero about the arrival of Spring. Point of fact--today...

L isten, I'm kind of showing up here because I'm afraid that if I don't write something-- anything -- right now , I might nev...

M any of us are locked in the latest Polar Vortex--or one of them, now that there are actually three daughter vortices --and the extreme c...