February 2022

Does mass extinction sound bad to you? Because it sounds bad to me. I recently read an article stating that Earth’s sixth mass extinction has already begun. This, according to scientists. There is no doubt about it. Here lately, we’ve been killing off entire species without blinking an eye. Extinctions have been happening at an […]

I’ve heard people in recent times, especially in the time of Trump’s term as president, say they want a Civil War. And I say outright, anyone saying such a thing is a complete imbecile. Stupid. Disgraceful.  They have never lived through a Civil War. And neither have I. But I have read enough about them

Hold on to your bagels, breakfast lovers. Sandwich lovers too. May the force be with you. Where would the world be without things between two slices of bread? It can be a magical treat. Sometimes, it becomes all that much better when we give it a toast. Yes, crisp it up. Put a little crunch

The average novel is about 80,000 words, up to 90,000. Of course, some are longer, and others, not so much. I only think of this because today is the birthday of Victor Hugo. He was born on February 26, 1802, in France. He wrote the second-longest novel in all of history. Les Miserables was a

I don’t remember many Christmas gifts from my childhood. A select few, however, stand out in my mind. One of those was my crazy-good “Rock’Em, Sock’Em Robots” Set. The joy I had that Christmas morning, tearing back the paper and seeing the photos of the Robots on the front, in their big boxing ring, duking

As they say. The secret of life is to just keep breathing. It is the thing we don’t think about. Most of us. We breathe in and out, somewhere around 22,000 times each day. We exhale our carbon dioxide and inhale the air, with its good oxygen, to send our bodies on their way. It

Back in the late 1990s, people were afraid that Dolly would somehow take over the world. Not Dolly Parton. Although, these days, she makes a fairly huge impact on the world with all her humanitarian work. No. The Dolly in question was the good sheep in Scotland. The Dolly of cloning fame. She was the

The older I become, the less enamored I am with the “great sense of adventure.” I’ve never been a thrill-seeker my entire life, even as a young, fearless, twenty-something. No. I think my nickname, at least in this department, should have been “Sense and Sensibility.” I am a creature of comfort. So when I hear