Archive - Spurnpiker's Journal

Got the Mullygrubs?

We All Do Sometime

11 hrs ago •

Remembering the Coal Hill

Our Inner City Sledding Hill

Dec 10 •

Did John Steinbeck or Bugs Bunny change the meaning of ‘nimrod’?

While reading John Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charley” recently, I came across a reference to “nimrod.” Which originally meant mighty hunter but, thanks…

Dec 7 •

Clapperville — A Real Place or Someone's Idea of a Joke?

Notes from research on my next Times-Gazette/Gannett column

Dec 6 •

Cownivourous Bovines

What Cattle Do When No One's Looking

Dec 1 •

November 2024

Journaling – A Backup Hard Drive for Your Brain

Serendipity — When I awakened in the morning, I took a page with the date from a random book, which happened to be about natural disasters.

Nov 30 •

Woolpeckers — And Other Figments of My Menagerinaration

Irv reveals a hitherto unknown species

Nov 29 •

Happy Gratitude Day

Grateful for so much.

Nov 28 •

Revisiting the Greenville Treaty Line

Road Trip Redux

Nov 22 •

Confessions of a Cleveland Cabby – Part One

Not for the Squeamish

Nov 19 •

Yogi Berra – My Life Coach

Sage advice at a crossroads in my writing career

Nov 16 •

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Nov 15 •

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