Month: January 2019

It is no secret that I love animals. I’ve said it time and again, here, on these pages. Admittedly, I am a big dog person. Or perhaps a “little dog” person would be closer to the truth, given the fact

There is a bigger energy at work. I know it. I believe all of us are Spiritual. Deep inside, we know. There are those moments of serendipitous brilliance, which sometimes push the door open, just a wee little bit, and

Have you ever seen a painting of Thomas Paine? Sometimes, I wish Photography had been invented way before it was. I think it would be really great to see a photo of Paine, or George Washington, or Buddha, or a

A scale weighs.A calculator figures.A hammer pounds.A freezer, well, it freezes. All these things, have a specific purpose. Sure, they can be used for other things, like doorstops, or coffee tables, or coasters. But their main objective in their time

Lewis Carroll, of course, wrote Alice in Wonderland. That book is quite a read. And, I have seen the play a few times, and then the movies. But he is one of the people I named my dog after. Lew.

Today is National Peanut Brittle Day. While I’ve never had anything against Peanut Brittle, it wasn’t one of my favorite things to eat, back when I still ate sweets. Maybe, because as a kid, you go through that phase where

That guy Dick. President Nixon insisted that he was not a crook. Positively, unequivocally, indisputably, NOT a crook. He made this declaration on November 17, 1973, down in Orlando, Florida. At Walt Disney World of all places. I have no

The bad news used to hit our front doors with a whap. It was rolled into a paper log, by a paper boy, or paper girl, and flung from a bicycle, spinning and twisting through the air in all types

We bought a new dishwasher. Appliances. Devices designed to perform a specific task, typically a domestic one. That’s what they are, that’s what they do. I can remember when I was a kid, and I would be dropping in on

I liked “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” It was a TV show which aired from 1969 to 1972. I am not sure why I was so attracted to this show, other than the fact that the lifestyle was completely foreign