May 2020

Our country is erupting. It is coming apart from the inside out. It is filled with entitled white people, storming courthouses, armed with semi-automatic weapons, all because they have been asked to forego their manicures, and cheeseburgers. They want to talk about Rights? Talk to George Floyd. Then there are all the other people, black […]

I only intended on writing about the word “virtue” today. You see, initially, I wasn’t coming up with any ideas as to what I should write. So. I asked for a little “help” in this writing, just saying it out loud, and the word came into my mind very clearly. Virtue. As always, my first

I’m thinking about cookies and I don’t even eat them. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t like them. I do. And they are on my mind. I used to have some favorites. My number one absolute, was a homemade, gooey, melting chocolate chip, soft and chewy cookie. Yes, the reliable chocolate chip cookie. But

In 1830, on this day, the president of the United States was Andrew Jackson. I don’t know much about his boyhood, other than he was born in the Coastal Carolinas. His actual birthplace is unknown, as his father died in a logging accident three weeks before he was born. After his father’s funeral, it is

Yesterday, Tuesday, was a real doozy, I’ll tell you. Before 2020, in the Land of Woo, where people believe in the philosophical, the spiritual, the intellectual and the unknown, many of the Woo-sters were predicting that the year of 2020 would be one of incredible enlightenment. Even the numbers, 2020, suggesting clear vision, made the

The SpaceX liftoff is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon. It is the first time that we’ve launched people into space using a commercial aerospace company, that Elon Musky fellow. It will happen down there near Cape Canaveral. I like the way that name sounds, like something SuperHeroes, would wear on special occasions — their Cape

Science is one of my favorite things. If we just start out, examining its definition, it is easy to understand why. Science is the “intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.” The study of the physical and natural world.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever been on the Brooklyn Bridge. I’ve been to New York on a few occasions and been driven around by some madcap taxi drivers, who could have very well taken me across the thing, and I would have never known it. To me, riding in a taxi in New York