Jerry Nelson

This Yuletide season has seemed a bit peculiar for my wife and me. Our impression that this was an off-kilter Christmas was mainly due to a summer and fall that passed in a blur of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and doctor's appointments to treat my tonsil cancer.

Jerry Nelson This Yuletide season has seemed a bit peculiar for my wife and me.

Someone recently challenged me to come up with some New Year's resolutions. I have a couple of problems with that particular idea.

"I’d forgotten how energetic toddlers can be and that they often have the attention span of a housefly."

Call us wild and crazy, but my wife and I opted to ring in the new year by spending it with our toddler grandson and his parents, who live in Kansas City.

Every boy dreams of discovering buried treasure. Finding gold doubloons and muttering “Yar” are among its chief benefits.

During our long, chilly winters – when it's so cold outside that you wish you had stored your brass monkey someplace warm – a guy has no excuses and no choice but to tackle those indoor chores that he'd put off last summer.

Jerry Nelson During our long, chilly winters – when it's so cold outside that you wish you had stored your brass monkey someplace warm – a

The human body requires a thorough checkup from time to time to see if anything is amiss or if something has worn out and needs to be replaced. It's very similar to owning a car.

The Facebook photo caption read something like: “You think we're having a winter? This is what a real winter looks like! Photo was taken in 1979.”