by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey. Casey died in 2019. I miss him still. I dated and then married my wife Gosia. Before Casey, she had been afraid of dogs. Before...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer, written for my Cordova Times (news outlet of Alaska) column: July 16, 2026. That article was edited for space. The full, updated, and complete version is below. Thank you. HN German soldiers captured Army scout Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in December of 1945...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Collier’s magazine once flourished as one of the most-read publications in America. Kurt Vonnegut fans celebrate the tale of his discovery by Collier’s fiction editor Knox Burger. Publishing a story in Collier’s encouraged Vonnegut to keep writing–even...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Stories of unruly passengers causing airline pilots to take unscheduled forced landings seem to make headlines more frequently. We read about miscreants doing all sorts of tomfoolery and dangerous acts: storming...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Let’s Talk Wild Turkey Today Hank Nuwer (First published, Thanksgiving 2020) No use of you and me complaining but Thanksgiving just won’t be the same this year. Rising numbers of Covid cases in Darke County, Ohio and Randolph County,...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer, with photo by Goosia Nuwer Daily Advocate – June 9, 2022 0 Female peafowl are peahens. Male peafowl are peacocks. People who molest the birds are peabrains. This tearful tale of tail-feather thievery began late in the night...
