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I’ve seen where Rasputin lived. Not all the places, but his last house. It was a modest wooden house, painted yellow, and tucked back in the trees at the wooded entrance of Czar Nicholas II and Alexandra’s Palace. It seemed a little creepy actually. He lived there with his wife, and his kids. All of […]

  What would have happened if the Princess had kissed the frog, and that frog turned into something other than the Prince? Wouldn’t that have been quite the story? Like, say, perhaps the witch, or whoever it was that put the curse on the Prince-Frog— what if that witch gave the kiss a random five

  There was a shooting out in Utah. Four people were killed. And another person was seriously injured. That’s four dead in one shooting incident. It barely made the headlines. Barely. Four American Citizens. Three children, killed. One adult. And it is scarcely a blip on the American news scene. This is what we have

I’d like to write a nice story, a happy story, about A.A. Milne today. This day, January 18th, is his birthday. He came into this world in 1882, in a place called Hamstead, England. I’ve never been there but it sounds awfully nice, as I am very fond of ham. That’s might be something Pooh

  They say it is completely impossible to hum while holding your nose. Go on. Reach up there and pinch it, then try to hum a few bars. To hum, the air has to escape out of our noses. No air, no noise. No hum. The air we draw in and out is essential to

A few weeks ago, Mary’s youngest grandsons asked me if I thought Roswell was real. I told them, “Of course it is real. It is a place in New Mexico, and there are a lot of buildings there, with people in them.” But they wanted to know what I thought of the UFO story. I

Early this morning, I read a wrap-up story about the NCAA Football Championship. I’m not going to write about the game. You can read about that anywhere. However, I was pulling for the Louisiana State University Tigers to win over the Clemson Tigers. A duel of Tigers. As it turns out, LSU won in a