Bloggles

  We had some company Saturday night. Mary’s grandson’s were over, 12, 9, and 3. They are good boys with amazingly high decibel levels. Around mid evening they wanted to watch a movie. Robin Hood. As we turned on the Roku, I asked them, which Robin Hood? I told them there were at least a […]

  A million seconds is just around 2 weeks. A billion seconds is 32 years. That gives you a little glimpse into the size of having a billion of something. If the big Sun in the sky were to be scaled down to the size of a white blood cell somewhere in our bodies, the

  There’s the old joke. Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil? Because it is pointless. Some days I don’t have a point here. I simply meander. I think there is a lot to be said for meandering. It is to wander at random, or to proceed aimlessly. You know. To bump around into

  I haven’t worked in an office in years. I can’t say that I miss it. There are meetings, papers being pushed around, ill-placed water coolers, year-end office parties, and such. It’s all very extrovert-ish. I needed just one more wall on my cubicle, I’d say. Anyway, there are is a lot of chatter in

The first time I ever went to Farraday’s Skating Rink was in the third grade. I used to roller skate all the time, in our basement. I had an old pair of white leather skates, that were handed down to me a hundred times over, and didn’t fit my feet. We would run circles around

His birthday is today. And. If you read a biographical blurb about him, they will tell you this about Edwin Hubble: “Edwin Hubble, in full Edwin Powell Hubble, (born November 20, 1889, Marshfield, Missouri, U.S.—died September 28, 1953, San Marino, California), American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy

There must be some kind of magic in the numbers 1119. November 19. If you keep adding all the digits in the numerology way, it turns into a 3. 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 = 12 then 1 + 2 = 3 . I don’t know what threes mean in numerology other then

When I stopped writing Kid Wednesday, I did so for a lot of different reasons. For one, I was hitting a major dry spell, and it had been about the fifth big dry spell in a row. The bottom line, it was feeling largely difficult to think of anything of interest to say. There were