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I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery. I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel.

The season for Trick or Treating is upon us and whether you are the giver or the getter, it is sometimes a stressful time for all. But for those of us of a certain age, there is a good time to give up the getting part of it. Top 10 reasons you know you are too old to Trick or Treat when: 10.

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts.          “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,” said one boy.

Staff Writer Here’s a little factoid automo - tive buffs or just to dazzle your friends about one of the creature comforts that we take for granted, unless it doesn’twork. The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner.

How long has it been since you heard someone mention flying saucers? It was quite a topic a few years ago. I was a wedding photographer in the 1960s.

Monday is Labor Day. The Laborest of Days Poor Labor Day—the most underrated and unheralded of American holidays. It slides by almost as an afterthought in a distracted mix of resignation and dread, without a single aisle at Walgreen’s dedicated to its approach.

THE PIERCING RING of a home phone used to command respect. “That’s how I was raised: When the phone rings, you hop to it,” I heard my mom say recently as we chatted on my new landline phone.