Pirates were Really a Poor Lot
By Leonard Wibberley First published June 12, 1979 11/12/2018 I am writing a book about pirates for children, such as you and me, and to...
Convenient Time for a Heart Attack
By Leonard Wibberley First published in 1973 9/15/2018 About a year ago I suffered a heart attack. It came at a most convenient time, for...
Personality Problems of the Motor Car
By Leonard Wibberley First published March 8th, 1959 8/31/2018 NOTE: Leonard Wibberley, Los Angeles newspaperman turned author, finds...
Author's Back Despises Literature
By Leonard Wibberley First printed on April 17, 1979 3/29/2018 The reason this is not going to be a very interesting column is that my...
On Reading to Children
By Leonard Wibberley First printed in The New York Times in 1961 2/20/18 I suppose that there is as much nonsense written on the subject...
I Confess (with Apologies to Scrooge)
By Leonard Wibberley First Published December 19, 1973 12/20/2017 An insurance agent recently pointed out that, the walls of my living...
Today's Knives Are Dull
By Leonard Wibberley First Published Unknown 11/22/2017 I do not know what has happened to knives but over the years they have become...
Life, Liberty...and the Pursuit of a Fiddle
By Leonard Wibberley Originally published in the Los Angeles Times on the Bicentennial July 4th, 1976 7/4/2017 This is surely the time to...
Baby—and Father—Doing Well
By Leonard Wibberley Originally published in the Boston Globe June 14, 1980 6/17/2017 I once went to live in Portugal with my wife and...
Little League... Toilets... Pancakes
By Leonard Wibberley First Published July 1979 5/5/2017 On the same day the National League was just managing to beat the American League...