2023

It is 1860, and my Aunt Bessie is moving to Ketchum, Idaho.How will I ever talk to her again? Well. Back then. You couldn’t. A letter could have been written to Aunt Bessie. But it would have to travel by overland stagecoaches. Travel by stagecoach from the East Coast (e.g., New York) to the West […]

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain! I’m not exactly sure what it means. For years, I thought it was a plane. I mean, the plane was invented in 1903. And the story I’m alluding to was set in London in 1912. It opens outside the Covent Garden opera house, where noted phonetics

I’ve never really been on a “showboat” before. I’ve had three similar experiences. One, we took a large “dinner cruise” out of New York City with our two oldest grandkids. We sailed out and around the Statue of Liberty and back into our port. The entire boat ride / dinner lasted a few hours. There

Oh. There is something to be said about the “Good Old Days.” Except. It used to be the “Good Old Days” were for old people. Like my grandparents. Or even my parents, once they went up in years. Now. Those old days are the 1980s. Sadly. But today’s historical item happened in that particular decade.

There are times in our lives when one little thing we do, one little action, has a significant and lasting impact on the rest of our lives. Oh. I don’t know. It could be anything. Take Berty McIntry, for example. She played Canasta with friends every Saturday morning in the basement of St. Thomas’s Church.

The world is full of natural disasters. There are earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, blizzards, tornados, volcanos, famine, drought, landslides, floods, and many more. Floods? Sometimes, they are not so natural. Such would be the case on this date, October 17, 1914. That is when the London Beer Flood occurred. Yes. The Beer Flood. A large vat

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