2021

Each day. The world puts forth an uncountable number of experiences. Take this day, now. Here. All of your actions, interactions, and experiences, and multiply that by 8 billion people. There’s a lot that goes on in our world, in 1,440 minutes. People fall in love, babies are born, new inventions are discovered, wars are […]

Trust me. I’ve opened a lot of them in my day. Bottles. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and they certainly can hold a wide variety of things. Most of them are filled with liquids, although this isn’t always true. Our handy bottles have been around since prehistoric times. People needed ways

This past weekend, that good show 60 Minutes did a piece on companies offering genealogy reports from our DNA. I have to say that I was one of the first ones on board, spitting into my vial and mailing it away. It was an easy decision for me because of my past. Years ago, I

As I Google the walking directions, I find out now that it was exactly 8/10 of a mile from my childhood home’s front door to Our Lady of Mercy grade school. Not the whole five miles, as I remembered it was. Even still, a nice walk on nice days. And that is exactly what I

I try not to write about sports too often, as I know many people don’t care for the world of athletics as much as I do. And I have to say, my interest over the years has feigned. I used to know all the facts and figures, who was leading divisions, and on. These days,

Strapping two narrow steel blades to the bottom of one’s feet and then being shoved forward onto a sheet of ice seems like an accident waiting to happen. A natural disaster. Yet, some people manage to overcome the hardship and turn it into an art form. Figure skating. Heck, for that matter, playing hockey, or

We Americans elect a president every four years to lead the country. They are born into this world like everyone else, mere humans. But, most of us expect our presidents to be extraordinary adults. Leaders. Intelligent. Honesty. Forthright. And they should be. They are in charge of our country, after all. Yet, through the years,

I fell in love with Scotch Tape at a very early age. My young little self watched the Captain Kangaroo Show religiously, every day, in those years before I had to go to school. The antics were always shifting, from Bunny Rabbit pulling the old ping pong ball gag, to Mr. Moose spouting off some