Author: John Small

If there is one thing that each new generation has in common with the one that immediately preceded it, it is the tendency for members of the older generation to rant and rave about how easy the current crop of youngsters has it...

I know some of you probably get a little tired of me doing so, but if you’ll permit me I’d like to put my geek hat back on for just a moment. For a couple of days last week, I found myself getting pretty well raked over the...

I was racking my brain the other day, looking for a column topic as my weekly battle with the Dreaded Deadline Doom loomed on the horizon, when I suddenly realized that it has been right at a year - the July 15, 2021, edition of...

(Editor’s Note: The following “Small Talk” column was originally published in the July 2, 2020, edition of the Johnston County Sentinel. It is being reprinted this week in response to several reader requests received over the...

Well, I learned a new word the other day:  "Interquel." The term was used by a writer in an online essay I read about Shadows of the Empire, the 1996 Star Wars story/multimedia event set between the events of The Empire Strikes...