The names of stores are fascinating. In the 1940’s when I was a little guy there were Five and Dime stores when everything inside only cost a nickel or a dime. There are still a few Five and Dimes around but the name doesn’t have...
The most wondrous thing occurred last evening while taking my dog for a walk. She is a retriever with an incredible sniffer. We don’t make very good time because of all the sniffing stops along the way. Yet, we came upon a rabbit sitting by...
I like Subway sandwiches. I really can lose some pounds if I eat there even for a week. The bread is always fresh as are the ingredients. However, I must also add that I have never gotten a Subway sandwich that looks like one in...
By October, 1905 the Wright brothers had flown 160 times. The longest flight was twenty-four miles and lasted thirty-eight minutes. They could control their plane, fly in circles, bank and lightly land. The Dayton press was reporting eye-witness accounts. The Wright brothers wrote to then...
In Massachusetts we have to have an annual inspection for our cars. They check the lights, the horn, the front wheel bearings, the wipers, etc. Today I took in my car and noted my anxiety. What if they found something wrong that I was not...
My younger son bought me a new pair of dress shoes. My old pair is twenty years old and my family told me they looked it. Since it was evident I was not going to trade them in, (one becomes attached to old friends) he...
Someday the game show Jeopardy will post the following answer, “Clyde Tombaugh.” And they will accept the following question, “Who is the first human being to fly beyond our solar system?” Today, after a nine and a half year journey of flying over 51,000 miles...
Perhaps in an attempt to make the world a better place, if only in our fantasies, we have filled our culture with a host of fictional super heroes. Summer movies, comic books, novels, television series entertain us with good guys, often existentially conflicted, fighting evil....
This afternoon I stood in front of a glass box containing a manikin fortune teller. For a dollar I could put my hand on the glass and the seer would read my palm by comparing my life line, etc. to a preprogrammed template. Obviously I...
Having gone for a walk in the forest this afternoon we all had to detick when we got home. It’s very difficult to walk in the forest without harvesting a crop that is ready to eat you. The coyotes and bears move away from you...