July 2021

I’m always one to say “Follow your dreams.” Well. Strike that. I never actually say, “Follow your dreams.” I typically say things like, “Be wonderful, amazing you.” And such. There’s something about the phrase, “Follow your dreams,” that always bothers me somehow. Maybe I take things too literally. I mean, heck, if I followed my […]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This Fourth of July, let us remember our good Declaration of Independence and all those who were a part of

Some days, it seems, the best we can come up with is Idaho. I mean no disservice to Idaho or any residents of the state. But it seems that the most I can report is that Idaho was admitted as the 43rd state in the United States on this date, July 3, 1890. They have

I was struck by the caption on this historical event. The headline claimed that on this date, July 2, 1843, an alligator rained from the sky in Charleston, South Carolina. This, during an incredible thunderstorm that day. They said that no one saw the alligator getting “to” the area, and everyone agreed (at the time).

You all read the news, just like I do. So by now, you know that Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after his conviction on sexual assault charges was overturned. This, by Pennsylvania’s highest court. That’s where he has been these past three years — behind bars in the State Correctional Institution in Montgomery