April 2022

As I’ve mentioned at least 10,000 times before, I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Better known as the home of the Wright Brothers, the cash register, the hydraulic jump to prevent flooding, code-breaking machines that helped end World War II, and the eighth wonder of the world, the pop-top. Yes, Dayton, dear Dayton, […]

In Ohio, we have at least five Republicans running for Senate right now. And with that, we’ve been bombarded with their commercials, which not only attack the other candidates, they attack half the American population as well. They call Democrats “evil” and “socialists.” They say that liberals love drugs and are destroying America with the

I was affected by the movies I watched as a kid. I can remember seeing some old mummy movie, that was chock full of archeologists. From that point on, I started to dig around in the backyard with a hand trowel. I never found anything except for rocks. Which was fine by me. But. That

Weed. Let me be perfectly clear. I do not smoke marijuana or take any drugs, other than medications that have been legally prescribed by a physician for a legitimate purpose. That is not to say that I haven’t smoked it before. In fact, a few times in my early life, I gave pot a try.

I think we are lucky to be living in America. The United States may not be number one in a lot of the measured “categories” anymore, but for the most part, we stay up there. We are still ranked by many to have the number one education system in the world. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/best-countries-for-education. And we are

I hope your Easter day was a happy one. An eggy day. We can’t have eggs without chickens, and vice versa. A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times a day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side. She will lay 300 to 325 eggs per year. That’s a lot of turning. Turning.

In case you were wondering, since we are so close to a holy day as practiced by many.  It was on this date, April 17, 2012, when a book was sold for 9 million pounds. That’s about $12 million dollars U.S. The book was an 8th-century Gospel that was owned by St. Cuthbert. It was

And I should add, that on this date, April 15, 1755, Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” was published in London. A truly big day for all of us.  Such a thing could last for a chiliad. Probably more. A good day for another “Wordy of the Day.”  Yes. A chiliad. I like