June 2021

Spite. Spit. With an “e” on the end. Thankfully, I haven’t known many spiteful people in my life. Perhaps, the key word in that phrase is “known.” It may be that spite unfolds when we are least aware of it. Spite is the desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone. Often, it is done without […]

This is as good a day for some history highlights, those archival side-swipes that have nowhere else to go, but here. All of the following events are factual and happened on this date, June 13. 1325 — A man name Ibn Battuta began his journey. He left his home in Tangier, Morocco, which is right

There he was, hanging upside down, above New York City. Forty feet in the air, strapped tight in a straight jacket, like some bat, wrapped in its wings, He spun around, writhing and thrashing, as the crowd below watched, mouths wide open. The amazing Harry Houdini, on this date, June 12, 1923, eventually freed himself

I guess we know what chemicals can do to people over time. Take someone who’s been treating lawns for years, spraying them like crazy with fertilizers and weed killers — all for the sake of GREEN. All those chemicals are eventually going to soak into the person applying it. And then what happens? Oh. Let’s

I went to Walmart yesterday against all my sensibilities. But I needed a few items, and there I was. This was the first time I’d gone into the store since they dropped their mask mandate. However, the CDC still recommends that people who are NOT vaccinated wear a mask and distance themselves from others. Even

There’s really nothing to learn here today, as I don’t understand the topic myself. Cryptocurrency. I don’t understand the topic, as I mentioned, perhaps because I don’t try. I’ve never once delved into reading any informative explanation or dissertation on the stuff because I simply don’t care. I have no understanding of cliff diving either

There is a first time for everything, they say. And it is true. What had never happened before had a first start somewhere. We like to make a big deal out of those “first times.” First man on the moon. First person to run a four-minute mile.First telephone message.First timee someone slipped on a banana.

I was Davey Crockett. It always happened that way because I was younger and had no say in the matter. My older sister, Julie, consistently played the part of Daniel Boone. She even got to wear the coonskin cap, which wasn’t really coonskin. They were baseball hats. But in the pretending of things, hers was