July 2022

It sounds like a good placement of two words. Christian Science. I mean, if I had heard this, without knowing a thing about it, I might have signed up. The true meaning of “Christian” is to be Christ-like. And let’s face it. He was a pretty good dude. And then you take the word “Science.” […]

Out. The opposite of in. You can take just about any other letter, or word, and combine it with the word out. Like “side.”Out becomes “outside.” When you leave the inside. Or, flip the words around to “side out.” A term in volleyball that means something or other. I’ve never played volleyball, but I think

There is a lot to love about a carrot, I’ll tell you. I used to eat them in mass quantities. So much so that I would leave orange sweat stains under the pits of my white t-shirts back in those days. You would think with all those carrots, I would have the vision of Superman.

I was deeply affected by many of the movies I saw when I was a kid. I seem to internalize them somehow, making them a part of my own little life. One of those movies I’m thinking about is called “Who’s Minding the Mint?” Produced in 1967. In it, an oddball group of characters tries

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” To put it in other words, and in another quote: “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Both sentiments came from a good man, Mr. Henry David Thoreau. Today is his birthday, having entered this world on July 12,

Darn it. I get things wrong. Not on purpose, but it happens. For all my life, I’ve been saying “Bopsy Twins.” Bopsy. Like Flopsy, Mopsy, and, of course, Cottontail. Yet, I just learned the other day, that it isn’t Bopsy at all. The correctness of the matter is Bobbsey. The Bobbsey Twins are the main

Two things have been on my mind lately. Two very separate things. I heard / read both of these from people I know. Those two items are these: 1. All problems have solutions. 2. There is no such thing as nothing. Both of these postulations have had me thinking fiercely ever since. As a result,

Today is my Dad’s birthday. He entered this world on July 9, 1922. Paul Edward John would have been 100 years old today but crossed into his next realm in 2013. I have missed him ever since. I’ve talked about my Dad several times here, but it is always for good reason. You see, I