2023

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

Does anyone remember McGruff the Crime Dog? I wonder why they chose “gruff” as his name. I only thought of him because the word “boorish” had been pounding through my head this morning. Boorish. Boorish. It doesn’t mean dull and uninteresting. That would be bore-ish. Or the other bore-ish might describe someone who always goes

Sometimes, these two cross my mind for no apparent reason. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. I have no connections to this story. At least, none that I am aware of. Perhaps in another life, I was a friend. Maybe I was one of them. Or maybe there is no such thing as past lives, and this

Things can be quite interesting when you stop and take a look. Like Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Those two battled it out in the election of 1912, even though Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor just four years earlier. I’ll tell you this quirky thing. When you look at the “ratings”