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Today is Good Friday. We went to church last evening and will go tonight and again on Easter Sunday. When I was a kid, “Easter” was on Sunday and we dressed up and went to church. I don’t remember any … Continue reading →

We went out one evening this week to celebrate a friend’s birthday. During the conversation, we found out that she was originally from Tennessee. She remarked that often people didn’t understand her because she talked “southern.” As the conversation progressed, … Continue reading →

  Spoiler alert — brooms stand up all the time…. Back on 20 March I discussed possibly an urban legend that a broom would stand upright by itself on the day of the vernal equinox… I’d heard this for a … Continue reading →

Today is one of my favorite days — spring (astronomically speaking) arrived — at 6:38 a.m. EDT to exact. Even though meteorological spring begins on March 1 (and continues through May 31) today is the real deal. And boy am … Continue reading →

We’ve all heard the phrase, “beware of the Ides of March.” Mostly we associate it with the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar… but the term didn’t originate with William Shakespeare. Way back when, the earliest Roman calendar consisted of ten … Continue reading →

We went out to eat this past week at one of our favorite restaurants. I got to thinking about over the years all the ‘favorite’ restaurants I’ve had. There’s probably too many to list so I decided list my “Top … Continue reading →

I’ve always had a kind of love/hate relationship with batteries. Seems like at various times in my life, they’ve come to play an important part. When I first started work with the Federal Aviation Agency, they had a self-study program … Continue reading →

Well, here it is Valentine’s Day again, when all the restaurants are full and you can usually only order from their limited (Valentine’s Day) menu and the prices are higher. Of course all this inconvenience is worth it because it’s … Continue reading →

Today is my old friend Abraham’s birthday. Abraham Lincoln was, of course, President of the United States during a particularly trying time. Donald Trump is President of the United States in a trying time, too. It’s not fair to try … Continue reading →

Well, here it is again — as Yogi Berra would probably say, Groundhog Day is like Deja vu all over again. Since it seems like we’ve only seen the sun around here for about five minutes in 2017, you’d think … Continue reading →