October 2023

Murder. Oh. She wrote about it. Angela Lansbury. Great, great Angela Lansbury. I always thought she seemed like such a nice person. But more than anything, she was a great actress. She was acclaimed on Broadway and on film, like her role in “Mame!,” and many more. Not to mention her campy TV series, Murder,

Sometimes, we make mistakes. We’ve all made them. I seem to err quite often, truth be told. And if klutziness also counts as erring, I’m a yutz. I run into walls and tables and things. But some mistakes are bigger than others. Like this one. It was on this date, October 15, 1991, when the

I love a good mystery. Those Whodunnits. It could be anything. Who killed Moppy McBride? Or who stole the Jewels of Havaburp Castle? I can remember reading the good mysteries of Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown when I was a kid. I fell in love with the genre then. There are some great mystery writers

For today historical date, I bring you a piece written by Jean Bussell.  I know you will enjoy it as much as I do.   And we all come into this world. _____________ Jean: Always a Monday My Birth & Early MemoriesMonday—always a Monday. That’s the day of the week on which I was born. And

Good people do good things.So it never makes sense to me, when bad things happen to them. I just don’t know what to make of it. Such was the case in the life of Edith Cavell. Her life started as so many lives do. Cavell was born in a village near Norwich on December 4,

Some days are all dried up when it comes to historical facts that “interest” me in some way. Don’t get me wrong here. Every day has loads of people, places, and things that have occurred that are somehow noteworthy. But days like October 11 seem to be teeming with items that I find particularly compelling

This is a special date in my life. For on this day, October 10, 1969, the “Jesus Christ Superstar” soundtrack album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice was recorded. Now, I don’t know how the “album buying” schematics worked in our household when I was a kid. But we had a lot of albums.

There’s so much to be said about October 9th, historically.So here it goes. I will list some of the incredibly epic events and say something about each one. This is what happened, through the years, on October 9: 869 — Charles the Bald crowned king of Lotharingen. First of all, Lotharingen was a big place,