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Happy Easter.   If you observe this holiday.  If you do not, Happy Sunday. Either way.  I hope it’s Hoppy.   ============= “I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how that

Since this is Good Friday, and Easter is just a couple days away, I may as well explain something to you. Easter has its very little quirky traditions.  On the surface and far below.  And when rabbits, and chickens, and

I’m blaming it on Toni Curtis.  I truly think it is all his fault.  My love of Magic, that is. He played Harry Houdini in the 1953 film, entitled, Houdini. Once I saw it, I was hooked. I wanted to

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird Spread our wings and fly. Well.  Not so fast.  Because

Tonight, I started to write about betting.  But I got terribly sidetracked trying to look up a fact on Ancestry. Earlier in the evening, someone said, “You can bet on it.”  And I thought about my Grandpa Wehrman, who taught

Flowers.  They don’t grow beards. Disclaimer.  Right up front.  I am no Fashionista.  I spend my life in blue jeans, and a variety of colored hoodies.  And running shoes.   If I stray from this, it is not by much.  Albeit,

Oh, I love a good word.  Our language is chock full of them.   There are so many I have never heard before, or do not know what they mean. So, just how many words are there in the English language. 

The seen and the unseen. Both exist. Sometimes looking carefully helps.  Other times, there simply is no seeing.  You may have other ways of knowing.  But not seeing. Oxygen, for one. But there are so many more. Millions more. We

Some phrases just get worn out.  Tired.  To the point that we can’t stand to hear them anymore.  Most of the time, it occurs due to the shear volume of overuse.  However, a few rank right up there, simply because

Many of us enjoy a good cup of coffee.  But have you ever wondered when was coffee invented?  There is the story about this guy named Kaldi.   He lived way back in the 9th-century.  In Ethiopia.   The story goes, that