January 2021

I fell in love with Scotch Tape at a very early age. My young little self watched the Captain Kangaroo Show religiously, every day, in those years before I had to go to school. The antics were always shifting, from Bunny Rabbit pulling the old ping pong ball gag, to Mr. Moose spouting off some […]

Things we can’t control. Start the list because, in reality, it is most anything. Everything. We can do our best to line things up the way we want them. Make sure all our ducks are in a row. Never putting all our eggs in one basket. And on. But when it comes down to the

There are certain songs that we keep on homemade tapes of the mind. Our all-time favorites, or even the ones where we know all the words. One song I’ve always liked is “I Don’t Like Mondays,” especially when I worked full-time. It was just this morning that I found out the narrative behind the song.

This world is as round as can be. When you draw a perfect circle, there is no beginning or no end. It is a continual line. So seems the way of the earth, forever spinning, and the humans on it, forever doing. Charles Darwin, as we all remember, was that fellow with some bright ideas

Once again, I am thinking about the eight billion people in the world and how we have no idea about the lives of the most of those people, save for the handful of individuals that surround our own circle of existence. Then, I think of this every day, backward, throughout all of time. And hopefully,

Dance. Dance. The dance has always been with us. Way before there was written language, people gathered together in those early cultures and passed stories from one person to the next, not just laterally, but down through the generations. A part of this culture included many different forms of dances — social, celebratory, and ritual

Back in 1858, a couple got married. Well. I’m sure a lot of couples got married that year. But the one I am thinking of is Princess Victoria of England, to the Crown Prince of Prussia, Frederick. Princess Victoria was born right there at Buckingham Palace, London, in 1840. I wonder if they have a

You may not have recognized him on the street, but he was one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, if only for that one-minute scene. Today is the birthday of Jerry Maren, on this January 24, 1920. The one-minute scene I am referring to is the grand and auspicious welcome to Munchkinland by none other than the