I'M OK with babies. I mean, I don't want to possess one or anything, but they're nice for other people to have. (Except maybe for teens in Gloucester, Mass.  

Of all the puny towns in all the states in all the country, floodwaters had to rush into Columbus Junction.The resulting fame has likely receded by now, but one day last week Columbus Junction, Iowa, a little speck of a town in the corn-and-soybean-producing land of Louisa County, containing one  

How a once promising artist wasted her life on writing  

ADHERING to the words of wisdom from my mother, Monty Python and optimists everywhere, I shall look on the bright side of life. Today, anyway.True, TV says that nothing good has happened since the earth cooled, and TV never lies.  

DON'T ASK me why, but some people think it's odd to see a couple of women lugging a life-size mummy in a big black coffin through a crowded restaurant parking lot in broad daylight in the middle of May.  

And if you have to think about being cool, you're not  

Times are tough, and we all have to pinch words and mince pennies  

So there I was. A human. Visiting various animal attractions at the Oakland Zoo on a recent weekend, pausing briefly to ruminate over the camels in the camel enclosure because they were, well, camels, and they were cute.  

ART IS ALL around us, and I don't mean only in a natural or philosophical sense such as shadows on the grass, smiling babies, a glow of inner truth or "Oh, check out that beautiful cloud!  

Saving the environment has become just another fad