February 2023

Let’s be cheesy. Because most everyone likes cheese.Most. If you don’t like cheese, you might be defective. I’m joking. Of course, cheese isn’t for everyone. But according to a recent survey, 96 percent of Americans are cheese eaters. Most of these people would rather give up their cell phones for one week or forego coffee, […]

I like to say the name out loud. Abacus. But every time I hear its name, I am thrust back to my early grade school years when I was first introduced to the abacus. But first. What exactly is an abacus?I’m here to tell you. It is a tool. A tool of calculation. The abacus

How we shape things. One man who thought about this was Henry Moore. He was an English sculptor who took a different approach to the art form. His pieces were organically shaped and abstract. He impacted the way we see sculpture today. But I’m not here to talk about his sculpting. I was struck by

What a rube. We don’t hear this much anymore — people calling other people rubes. By definition, a rube is an awkward unsophisticated person. They are defined as being a naive or inexperienced person. Webster simply calls a rube a country bumpkin. But what happens when that is your name? That was the case with

This post was recently shared with me on Facebook. It was written by a man named Harold Strunk and originally appeared on the McCreary County, Kentucky Group on Facebook. I was touched after reading this in so many ways. It speaks to a different time, in the not-so-distant past, when the world was slower and,

Some time ago, on the most excellent news program, 60 Minutes, they did a piece about the miracle healings at Lourdes. It proved to be quite a stirring piece, as some of the occurrences seem — well — quite miraculous. ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-sanctuary-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-60-minutes-2022-12-18/ ) By total happenstance, I came across another article concerning Catholic miracles that

Liar, liar. Pants on fire. Or. If you keep lying like that, your nose is going to grow. Just like Pinocchio. It has become one of Disney’s top films of all time. A classic. And it just so happens that it was released on this date, February 23, 1940. It is a dark, dark tale

There are marked differences in the world around us. Sometimes they are little things like the difference in the color of a few marbles. Sometimes they are large. Like the salary of Elon Musk and the average wage of some employees at Twitter entering data. I see these all the time when I’m looking for