Author: JLongs

What a day.  We spent the day at Kennywood Park here in Pittsburgh, a beautiful park with lots of fun rides.  The rides and coasters take advantage of the hilly terrain, and there are gardens, old buildings, and the...

History can make for great stories.  Augmented or completely true, biography or time line, truth can be stranger than fiction and fiction can make the history more compelling. Come along and follow my twisted...

Last Saturday, my mom had her friend Sunny at Barnes and Noble for the big Harry Potter party. Sunny’s a short-eared owl, native to Pennsylvania.  She was injured in a collision with an airplane at the Greater...

What makes a good book? There are as many answers as there are people.  From the formulaic to the fabulous, from the unique to the unspeakable, everyone has certain criteria for what makes a book a worthy read.  Some...

Today, I was treated to the spectacle of Sen. Rick Santorum drawing a crowd outside my place of work.  They drug out a nice podium and all for him, and news crews were illegally parked hither and yon, disrupting the...