July 2021

Somehow, I missed it. Yesterday was National Junk Food Day. I was unaware of this until I saw the late news, and they reported on the event. The newsman said donuts were the most popular junk food, followed by pies and ice cream. I was surprised that donuts would be number one. I don’t think […]

Guilty as charged. Yes, John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, on July 21, 1925. He was fined $100 and costs. It was quite a trial and a pretty good movie too. (Inherit the Wind, with Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly) But, there

It happens more often than one might think. It was on this date, July 20,1912, when the Philadelphia Phillies player Sherry Magee stole home in a baseball game. Not once. But twice. Sherwood Robert “Sherry” Magee was a left fielder . He played in Major League Baseball from 1904 through 1919. Fast on his feet,

You want to talk about secrets of the Universe? It was on this date, July 19, 1595, when the astronomer Johannes Kepler had an epiphany. Yes, an epiphany. Upon having the revelation, Kepler developed his theory of the geometrical basis of the Universe. All of this while he was spending time in Graz, teaching. (For

I used to be more directionally challenged than I am today. I account this to some personal shortcomings or, perhaps, character defects, which occurred for some 30 years of my life. Regardless, those went away, and my sense of direction improved greatly. I can now tell my left from my right with little interference from

The good old upgrade. We all know it in some form or another. Maybe we’ve flown the friendly skies a lot in our lives and piled up the frequent flier miles. At some point, we may have turned those in for the upgrade to First Class. Or perhaps we’d been driving around that old Pinto

This is Lou. And this is Lou’s pile of toys. Every morning, while I’m eating my breakfast, he goes into the bedroom, where his toys are kept in two separate bins. He selects mostly the same toys every day, and one by one, brings them to this spot for the morning meeting. I’m not sure

It has long been said that history has a way of repeating itself. Perhaps, we should put that hypothesis to good use. I’m thinking of the fires out west. On this date, in the year 971, the English Saint Swithun was reburied inside Winchester Cathedral. This was against his wishes, which I am presuming he