by Gene Sanders | Mar 4, 2020 | From The Porch Swing
I hate to admit it, but it’s true. The From the Porch Swing column isn’t always written from my porch swing. I moved a couple of years ago, and the swing that was happily under a covered and screened porch is now mostly out in the elements and the bugs,...
by Gene Sanders | Feb 6, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
I am fairly sure this expression is more about luring and killing flies than about capturing them. And, unless one is a geneticist double-checking old Drosophila (fruit-fly) studies, I’m not sure why anyone wants flies anyway. But aside from the obvious meaning, I’m...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 23, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
When we were cute little smart-aleck boys barely old enough for school, we used to enjoy saying “I ain’t gonna say ain’t no more, cuz ain’t ain’t a word in the dictionary. Ain’t that great?” The word ain’t may or may not actually be in the dictionary, but I do know...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 9, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
I used to be thinner. In fact, there was a time when I was downright skinny. I didn’t have a washboard stomach, but I had speed bump ribs. And I desperately wanted to be good at sports. There was an irrational hope in me, that probably still hasn’t completely gone...
by Gene Sanders | Dec 26, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I like comics and written cartoons. I like funny papers and serials and editorial cartoons. A lot of what I like are multi-panel strips, some with long-running stories. But I also like one-panel stand-alone cartoons. One of my all time favorites was published...
