It’s that time of year again for the start of a brand new baseball season.  I’ve written on this blog before about my love for the game, as have other bloggers.  But, I can’t help revisiting it this time of year.  Opening day is the only day of the season when “next year” is

Today would have been Theodore Geisel's 105th birthday.  If that name doesn't sound familiar, you probably know him by his nom de plume, Dr. Seuss.  For kids like me who grew up in the 1950s, Dr.

Back when I was a kid (yeah, we had cars and television then), we celebrated Lincoln’s Birthday on its actual day, February 12, and Washington got his due on his actual birthday on the 22nd.  There was no convenient, generic “President’s Day” that always falls on a Monday.  It’s really a shame we got

If you are a longtime reader of Nuts About Southwest, you are aware that I am a certifiable airplane geek, like fellow Blogger Bill Owen and a lot of you.  Having grown up in an airline family and having worked in the industry since 1976, I crave the sights, sounds, and smells of an airport.

“I've been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned,” Phil Connors (Bill Murray) tells his assistant Rita (Andie MacDowell). He goes on to tell her, "I'm a god. I'm not 'the' God...