August 2021

I’m thinking of taking Sundays off from the Goggles. Like a day of rest or something. At least this particular Sunday. Before I go. Last night, I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. I had not seen the movie since I was a kid. I fell in love with it […]

The world that spins, and the things that happen within all that spinning, are quite impressive on any given day. The animal kingdom, for one. They have a voice—all of them. The blue whale, for instance, can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. And wouldn’t you know? This is the loudest sound produce by any

Household hacks. They seem to be all around the internet, although, I must say, they do not seem as “prevalent” on FB and social media as they once did. I’ll blame this on the Trump presidency. For four years, his presidency bombarded every media and social media outlet on the planet. There was no room

Tunnels are something I never think about until I’m going through one. I guess if I had to go through a tunnel every day, I wouldn’t feel about them the way I do. Yet, when I approach a tunnel, I get a little wary. By definition, they seem harmless enough. A tunnel is an artificial

They say Ohio is a place of firsts. I’m not sure who “they” are, but we had a commercial here on TV for a while, talking about all of Ohio’s firsts. Well, I’ve found another. On this date, August 3, 1921, the first aerial crop dusting took place in Troy, Ohio. Its mission? To kill

Someone decided we needed a headcount. The first United Stated Census was completed and tallied on this date, August 2, 1790. The population was 3,939,214 in total. This included 697,624 slaves. It did not contain much information, really. The only name which appeared was “the head of household.” Other than that, it was a tally

He was probably wearing a suit with a vest, as all the men did in those days, there in England. Joseph Priestley stood in the laboratory at Lord Shelburne’s estate, the Boxwood House in Wiltshire. Truth be told, it was just probably some room in the guy’s house. Anyway, it was on this date, August