Columns

Another store is closing ... this time one of my absolute favorites. And I'm crushed. Plain and simple.

I wrote in this space in March about the closing of some Borders bookstores and how sad that made me. Well, Borders is now closing all of its doors.

Here is my eulogy to the store that housed some of the greatest stories ever.

I told you in my March column that I wouldn't be going back to Borders. And I didn't plan to. It was just too sad to know that my favorite Borders store was no longer in business.

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In an effort to make our readers feel more of a part of their hometown newspaper, we have come up with some new projects that we're going to be rolling out over the next few months and we hope you will like them.

The year was 1984. I was going on 8 years old and like any boy of that age, I was obsessed with comic books, superheroes and Star Wars.

Music, which today is nothing less than the air I breathe, hadn't yet impacted my life. I was exposed to music at home, but nothing that really grabbed me.

That was about to change.

It's that time again - and I hate it.

Hot weather is inevitable, I know, but each year I wish that summer will pass us by and Mother Nature will give us a few more months of winter.

As I write this on Tuesday, I'm looking at a calendar and seeing those dreadful words again - "First Day of Summer." Well, if the weather so far has been any indication, it's going to be a hot one.