September 2023

I’m on a bit of a rant today. First, let me explain. I get a lot of “newsletters” in my Inbox, by choice. Many of them will tell me about what happened on a particular date in history. Well, on July 30th, I received one with the headline that read: “Caitlyn Jenner Wins Olympic Decathlon.” […]

Obscurity. It is the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant. The quality of being difficult to understand. The description of “obscurity” comes from Webster. Not me. I’ve been getting it wrong. In my mind, when something is obscure, it is no longer relevant. Perhaps something from the long ago past. But that is not

I’m starting an advice column, I think. I’ll begin each installment with a disclaimer.::::::::WARNING: Read this advice column at your own risk. The author, me, has had varying rates of successes and failures throughout all of life. Heck, the same goes for every day. But we all have opinions on how things should be done.

Grover Cleveland hanged people. First, to bring us up to speed, Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer. He then became the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Grover, thus far, is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). Hopefully, Donald Trump will

I had to do a biological “timeline” of life on Earth when I was in high school. The task was laborious. It was Sister Christine Julie’s Advanced Biology class. I loved Sister CJ, as we called her. But I did not like this project. I needed a refresher course before writing any more about this.

Hotels. We’ve all been in them.And some are better than others, that is for sure. For me, the “hotel” is a pretty big piece of the pie when it comes to traveling. First, it has to be extremely clean. Second, It has to be nice in appearance. If my “home base” isn’t primo when I

Taking the day off from this blog again. I have to go look at the sky for a while. It’s outside. And up. I’ll let you know how it goes. “”””””””””””” “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”Rumi “”””””””””””” “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same

A man named Bertrand Russell once said, “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” I like this about old Bertrand. I share in this thought with him for a few reasons, but the big reason comes from Socrates himself, when he said, “The more I know, the more I realize