Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing you peace and joy. ========== “Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” =========== “What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”― Salman Rushdie =========== “Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”― Barbara Kingsolver, […]

Most historians suggest that Jesus was born in the Spring. I bet he was a Taurus, like me. Not saying that I am in any way like Jesus is. But he seems like a Taurus to me. Bullheaded. Stubborn. Homebody. In great need of material comforts. I’m joking. Jesus was probably a Pisces. You know,

Last night at sundown, I look to the southwestern sky for Jupiter and Saturn, kissing, so near, so close. Oh, but in all actuality, those two planets are more than 450 million miles apart. And we little Earthlings are another 550 million miles from Jupiter. But, they looked like they were rubbing noses. Of course,

The National Archives is gargantuan. And I’ll tell you just how big it is. There are approximately 10 billion pages of textual records; 12 million maps, charts, and architectural and engineering drawings; 25 million still photographs and graphics; 24 million aerial photographs; 300,000 reels of motion picture film; 400,000 video and sound recordings; and 133

Boy, oh boy. Do I ever love a good fairy tale. But it seems like fairy tales are seldomly about fairies. Or Faeries. Take for instance, a book that appeared first, on this date, December 20, in 1812. That is when “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” or “Children’s and Household Tales” by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

I don’t follow ice hockey. I’m not sure why. It seems interesting enough. I’ve been to a few games in my life, the first when I was about eight years old, to see the Dayton Gems play at Hara Arena. Most recently, a couple of years ago, I saw Miami University’s good team play and

I speak English most days. I know enough of the language to convey my message to others. I also know that “I ain’t seen anything”. In fact, I don’t “seen” on most occasions. I either see, or I saw, when appropriate, depending on where I’m sitting on the see-saw board. There are parts of the

The skies are full of airplanes these days. Well, not as many this past year, obviously. But in general, we can almost always look up and see a plane traveling overhead. Of course, we have Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright to thank for this. They were standing on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,