Author Archives: Jimmy

If you’ve been paying attention over the years, you know that today is a “holiday” that we always celebrate.I’m not sure why I think it’s necessary to explain Ten-ten Day every year — maybe because every year the same people … Continue reading →

Today is Columbus Day — a U.S. holiday that has always been, to some extent, and even more so, today — a kind of controversial holiday. The day commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492. It … Continue reading →

Today, October 8, is an important day — the Department of Homeland Security was established (by President George W. Bush) and Don Larson (Yankees) pitched the only perfect game in the history of the baseball World Series on the 8th … Continue reading →

Back in my working for a living days, one summer I spent a few weeks at a facility that our company owned in the country — in fact it was sometimes referred to as the “farm.” It once was owned … Continue reading →

Happy October — continuing my recent custom of writing about each upcoming month, today’s topic will be….October.  This is the month when I guess we should get into the fall mood. Besides Halloween, there’s a lot of interesting days coming … Continue reading →

Michaelmas is an ancient Celtic “Quarter Day” which marked the end of the harvesting season and is steeped in folklore. There are four English “Quarter Days” — days that fall around the Equinoxes or Solstices and mark the beginning of … Continue reading →

I was born in 1938 and I grew up in Maysville, Oklahoma. Ever since I was a kid old enough to remember, my uncle talked about wanting to buy a 1931 Ford Model A. Here’s the story about that memory…. … Continue reading →

Rosh Hashanah began at sunset yesterday, Sunday, September 25, 2022 (to nightfall of Tuesday, September 27.) 2022 is Hebrew Year 5783. Rosh Hashanah, literally “Head of the Year” in Hebrew, is the beginning of the Jewish new year. It is … Continue reading →

I used an expression the other day while waiting in traffic behind a particularly annoying driver — the expression was “for crying out loud.” I use that expression on occasion and I’ve heard other people use it, so what the … Continue reading →

Yesterday was our friend Anne’s birthday and I mentioned that she was born in Germany in the same year Hitler came to power.Anne has mentioned on several occasions the similarity of Germany in her youth to the United States the … Continue reading →