2022

I type a lot because I write a lot. Morning, noon, and night. But typing isn’t what it used to be. Today, the entire process of typing is easy-peasy. Things were much more difficult back in the day with mechanical typewriters. With that in mind, it is amazing, remarkable, and confounding that on this date, […]

Fear is quite a topic, isn’t it? Every human knows fear. It is how we are built. But how the seven billion people experience fear is quite different for every single one of us. What we fear is dependent upon us and our past experiences. There isn’t a “global” fear about any one thing, I

Weird stories are with us.It seems most people like to hear a true weird story. We have the legends of Bigfoot and the Yeti. The Loch Ness Monster. The Amityville Horror and the Haunted Insane Asylums. On and on it goes. One of these stories may account for the writing of The Beauty and the

What is it with people daring other people to do things? We used to do this mostly when we were kids. Like nine-year-old kids. But these days, “dares” pop up all over the place. A few weeks ago, everybody was daring everybody else to cook their chicken in Nyquil. To make these “dares” sound cool,

What drives us to do the things that we do? I suppose there are many reasons. Hopefully, we are doing the things we love in life that make us happy or fill us with passion. Some people devote their entire lives to that “one” thing that gets in their blood. That thing takes hold of

Just so you know. White-faced capuchin monkeys greet each other by sticking their fingers up each others’ noses. Supposedly, they do this to test their ‘friendships’ and build social connections. Leave it to the monkeys. I’m telling you right now. If someone came up to me and stuck their finger in my nose? It would

For as long as I can remember, there was a can of Crisco shortening in the cupboard at 134 E. Bruce Street. My Mom was not much of a baker, per se. But she found a lot of uses for Crisco when she cooked. There is a can in our pantry right now. We are

I love a good mystery. I’m talking about books. Heck, I love mystery shows and movies too. A whodunit. The kind of mystery I don’t care for is when I’ve put something away somewhere, and when I go to use it, I can not find the thing for the life of me. At the time