The World According to Mitch

The past two years I have failed to send out my regular Holiday Update Letter to friends and family.  The reasons are irrelevant, but yesterday and today I decided to revive that tradition, and sent it out.  If you did not get it then please understand that I hand-select the recipients from...

They are at it again. The debate is raging about whether or not a man named William Shakespeare, born to an illiterate peasant family in Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays, sonnets, and poems that are attributed to him. (See article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/ap_on_re_eu/britain_shakespeare_debate...

So I made the final push tonight and finished the latest - and last - Harry Potter book. I am not entirely sure why I forced my way through it. Possibly because I clicked on an MSNBC article that warned that there were spoilers in it, and I was fed up of avoiding them. I enjoyed the entire series, and...