How does anything get stuck, really? It is certainly never anyone’s intention to be stuck in anything. But there we are. People, animals, and things get stuck all the time. Of course, the biggest debacle of stuckness has been fiercely in the news lately. It is the container ship in the Suez Canal, which was […]

I like Mondays as well as any other day of the week. I think this is due to the fact that I am mostly retired. I don’t work anywhere that requires my punch of the clock. However, Mondays are a big dang deal for a lot of other folks. Many people out there simply hate

My first two years of schooling were the only times spent outside of the parochial realm until I would reach college. Kindergarten and first grade. The school was called E.J. Brown, and I am unable to find it on a map today. The elementary building was closed in 2004, and for the life of me,

Think of what the world would be if everyone had this skill. It could be a potentially dangerous place if we all knew how to read lips. Lipreading. I always love it in movies when a hostage situation is brewing, and they call in the lip reader. “What are they saying?” the police detective asks,

Would you like to write a guest spot on PollyGoggles? So many of you have such great thoughts, all the time. It is time to put them in the spotlight. If you are ready, just send me an email:pollyseven (at) icloud (dot) com Sharpen those pencils. The world would love to hear your thoughts! C’mon.

Do you ever wonder if history got it right? If the account that goes “down in the books” will be the event that truly happened? I wonder about this sometimes. I often speculate about those future generations who will be looking at their past. What things will they see? Through whose lens will they view

To be, or not to be. That is the question. Or. Maybe that wasn’t the question. Perhaps, the true query is, “Who am I?” We are a lot of things, all of us. Each of us unique And bless those people who have been able to discern their purpose in life. I have not figured

Firsts are pretty incredible things. They come about when something was never previously done before. We all experience firsts in our lives, to an immeasurable degree. There are the “biggies” which most of us don’t remember. Like, our first steps or our first words. I don’t know what my first words were, but I imagine