December 2021

Best Wishes for the New Year. 2022. ========= “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” ― John Guare ===========

Another new, new year. All it really means is that we’ve made one full trip around the sun. For the whole planet. So, it isn’t really a new year for anyone but Earth. Not Jupiter. Or Mercury. Heck, one year is only 88 days for Mercury. And don’t ever ask a dog what year it

Sometimes people build castles in the air. Other times, they are built on solid ground. Such is the case for the Csejte Castle in Slovakia. It is in ruins now, but it stands on a hill full of rare Slovakian plants. Who knew? Anyway, it has been declared a national nature reserve because of those

Here’s another thing all humans have in common. We all have a birthday. Yes, we are born unto this world. Spawned. Even the crusty people. You know. The ones with a hard exterior shell, who seem incapable of acting with humanity. I’m not saying he was one of them, but today is Andrew Johnson’s birthday.

It started long, long before Lili Elbe. Probably since we first started standing and walking on our own two feet, we humans. But Lili Elbe was the very first identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery. She was transgender. I should note here, just for clarity’s sake, transgender people are people whose gender identity is different

My parents were born two years after Prohibition started in the United States. The 18th Amendment started it all. My Mom never spoke a word of it, as I think she had little exposure to the world of illegal alcohol. But my Dad sure did. His father was an alcoholic, so the whole stopping the

“The beginning is always now.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.” — The Grinch