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Ask Emily: Be a friend
Dear Emily: My best friend, who is 16, just got dumped by her boyfriend of six months. She is acting like it is the end of the world. It is really annoying and I know she is just doing it for attention. But I will come across like a complete jerk if I accuse her of this. So how do I get her to move on and stop complaining? — Tired of the Drama
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Hollifield: Bike ride to nowhere interrupted
I was sweaty, out of breath and in no mood to have a long theological discussion with a rodeo clown.
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Ask Emily: Commute puts damper on career
Dear Emily: I love my job, but I can’t stand the commute. I feel like I spend half of my life in traffic. I asked my boss if I could work from home once in awhile, and he said no. I don’t know if I can continue to live this way. Should I quit? — Slave to I-66
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Hollifield: They won't get a penny out of ol' Jim
I have sad news for politicians who pack my mailbox with letters seeking contributions from the fellow who used to own my house.
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Hollifield: Free balloons have a price
Here's how to make people happy: Give them helium balloons with strings.
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Hollifield: Come fly with me
Want to ride in my flying car? No, you don't. Because any flying car I can afford will be less like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and more like, well, something that sounds awfully close to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Hollifield: Put your foot down; no toe trucks
Thinking about getting a foot facelift?
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Ask Emily: Summer employment blues
Dear Emily: I got a job working at a fast food restaurant so I can earn some cash this summer before going back to college in the Fall.
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Hollifield: Son, it's time for a long talk
Usually, I don't like to tell people how to live their lives.
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Hollifield: Galileo rests in pieces
Someday, I hope to be the proud owner of Abe Lincoln's big toe.
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Hollifield: I'll tumble 4 ya, part II
Here are five things I've learned from falling down a flight of stairs, bruising myself from head to toe, chipping a bone in my wrist and wearing a large brace that restricts my hand movement:
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Ask Emily: Acquaintance may not be receptive to new friends
Dear Emily: I am a 25-year old woman, and I met another woman around my age several months ago at a party.
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Hollifield: June 4 paper
Longtime readers of this column — who, by the way, will soon gather for their annual international convention in booth No. 4 at the Shoney's Family Restaurant near Roy's Discount Furniture Barn — may have detected several recurring topics or themes over the last eight decades.
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Hollifield: Wrong over being wrong
As it turns out, the journalism community doesn't owe the Donner Party an apology. They were indeed likely cannibals, as we have been correctly reporting for the past 160 years.
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Entertainment: Big names missing from TV's lineup
Television's "Ghost Whisperer" is now a ghost.
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Hollifield: Will 3D thrill or fall flat?
Hef, unlike the Creature, could never let me down. Or could he?
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Hollifield: Prison and a failure to communicate
Two things of note happened this week: (1) I forgot to ask my wife to pick up our daughter after school because I could not, and (2) I went to prison.
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Ask Emily: Woman has boyfriend worries
Dear Emily: My boyfriend, “Joe,” just started a new job where my ex-boyfriend, “Casey” works. Casey and I didn’t have what you’d call an amicable break-up, and I’m worried about what he might say to Joe about me. Should I try to talk to Casey and see what is going on in his head? – Diverting a Crisis
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Hollifield: Prepare now for alien invasion
Famed British physicist Stephen Hawking says space aliens, if they pay us a visit, will rip our faces off.
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Hollifield: Donner party, your party is eligible
The journalism community may find this hard to swallow, but it's possible we owe the Donner Party an apology. New research suggests they weren't the cannibals we said they were.
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Hollifield: Get soaked at the waterpark
Planning on going to a giant, family-oriented indoor waterpark?
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Hollifield: It's a thin, slightly foamy conspiracy
I don't like a lot of things, but there are very few things I despise. Here is one at the top of that short list — a watery soap dispenser.
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Hollifield: Twelve years later, a new refrain
Twelve years ago, when most of my parenting skills were based on what I learned from massive consumption of TV sitcoms, I wrote this:
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Ask Emily: Should woman squeal about violent movies?
Dear Emily: I recently walked into my neighbor’s house and found her two teenage kids watching a very violent movie. Their parents weren’t home, so I just told them I’d stop by later. My question is, should I tell their mother what I saw? I don’t want to intrude and make her feel like I’m judging her children or her parenting job, but isn’t it my responsibility to tell her what I saw? — Nosy Neighbor
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Hollifield: Dung beetle triumphs over health-care reform
It's official: The horned dung beetle is The World's Strongest Insect.
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