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Tonight is the first game of this year’s World Series. I can’t say I’m particularly excited about it, but I’ll probably watch at least some of it — after all, it is the World Series. The Arizona Diamondbacks vs. the … Continue reading →

Well, it’s that time of year again — time for the World Series! As I’ve mentioned before, when I was a kid, the World Series was a big deal. Most everybody talked about it and all the radios were tuned … Continue reading →

Watching TV a few nights ago, we saw someone wearing an áo dài (“owzeye”) — the native dress of Vietnamese women. It caught our eye because it had flowers, or some design on it — we both remembered them  usually … Continue reading →

United Nations Day, on October 24, marks the anniversary of the day — in 1945 — that the UN Charter went into force. The charter was ratified by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the … Continue reading →

The subject of weddings has come up recently, and I got to wondering about wedding rings. I’ve worn mine for more than 50 years — Caire lost hers a number of years ago, and it was replaced with other rings, … Continue reading →

I was throwing away a couple of old books that had been in our basement for I don’t know how long, and as I flipped through one of them — it contained article from, I think, an old Readers Digest, … Continue reading →

A friend of ours is a fan of bluegrass music, and it came up in a discussion a while back that bluegrass is mostly associated with the Appalachian region. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but he mentioned … Continue reading →

Besides the various wars and shootings, the news is full of the mess in Congress. The Speaker of the House fiascos are only the latest in a long list of actions, or non-actions, that indicates that Congress is failing to … Continue reading →

I read somewhere that today is St. Luke’s Little Summer. My extensive research turned up that the summer-like days that occur around October 18 are often called Saint Luke’s Little Summer. Actually, October 18 is Saint Luke’s feast day. It … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, October 18, is a legal holiday int Alaska — it’s Alaska Day. It is the anniversary of the formal transfer of territories in present-day Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States. That occurred on Friday, October 18, … Continue reading →