October 2025

Ohio. I was born here.  And I’m a bit on the curious side.  With that, we know that I’m not the only curiosity in Ohio. This state has its fair share of interesting and awe-inspiring things.  Or maybe even mysterious. Like the Serpent Mound. This mound is a quarter-mile-long snake made entirely of earth,  and […]

Off we go, into the wild, blue yonder. Climbing high, into the sky. Well. Almost.  Apparently, there are many places where we are not allowed to fly.  Those “No-Fly Zones.” Yes. Those “do not enter” signs in the sky. They’re put in place to keep aircraft from getting too close to certain areas, often for

And then. There was the time.  When Grasshoppers Ate South Dakota Sometimes, life gets hard.  Unthinkably hard. In that case, let’s take a trip back to July of 1931.  The United States was right in the middle of the Great Depression. Life was really hard for people back then. Everywhere. But the farmers in South

Every once in a while, the English language just doesn’t cut it. And when that happens, we Americans have to borrow a word from another country. Mostly because that word describes things perfectly.   And so comes one very interesting word.  Schadenfreude.  It is that German mashup of Schaden (“damage”) and Freude (“joy”). And when you

I love the angels. Believe it or not, they just might be everywhere. Who is to say, one way or the other?  But the majority of people in the world believe in angels.  In the U.S., almost 70% of the people say they believe angels exist, and around the world, three-quarters of respondents say the

Sometimes history gives us stories that are both fascinating and wonderful. Other times, they are difficult or tragic.  This one is a bit on the tragic side. This is about who got on the wrong side of things.  It happens sometimes. On January 31, 1945, Pvt. Eddie Slovik became the first American soldier since the

You know me and words.  I stumbled across one that I hadn’t heard from in quite a while. Chutzpah. Chutzpah is one of those words that just doesn’t sit quietly in the corner.  It seems to demand attention. By Webster’s measure, it means audacity or nerve.  But not just the ordinary kind of nerve. We’re