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The [photograph] above came into my mother’s possession (electronically) a few days ago. She’d never seen it. I think she was told it was taken in 1910 in Jamaica Bay, …

There are people here who were very supportive and I want to thank you. Oddly, that’s most of the people here. Not everyone here knew me at the time.

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Hello Old Friends, I've missed you! Insta and FB are poor substitutes for the kind of communication a good blog can do. It's been a long time since I made …

Another flower, and some info about posting...

I am usually not a huge fan of painting with pink.  It is challenging to get it to look the way a flower looks, delicate and natural. The danger is …

It's not a great book but it taught me a lot.

Limits or no, I can't leave this one out. It's the best book I've ever read and I'm not good choosing favorites. I'm not even done with it, I just …

the shofar didn’t originally exist for the High Holy Days. It existed as a sort of ancient siren, a call to action, often with military applications

Well, it has gotten very quiet around here for the past few days. I find myself starting new articles, getting a couple of pages into them, and then grinding to …

A visit to Fort Worden/Point Wilson in Port Townsend in late 2018 resulted in a series of works.

BY ALAN MILNER This is an example of how to get your name into the blurb that is shown with your articles in the listings. This will NOT appear in …

...insisted they'd no memory of my shabby behavior.

I'm not sure how to categorize this one, fantasy, futuristic, maybe dystopian? Mostly a beautiful and meaningful novel.

For many of us, our first memories of coffee-making at home are of mom filling the percolator with water, pulling the can of Folgers or MJB off of the shelf …

The Sound of Friendly Thunder The Milwaukee Air Show brought (friendly) thunder to the sky over our Wauwatosa, WI homestead over the July 25th weekend. The engines overhead  were unmistakable and …

College is a time for exploration, making new friends, and discovering who you are and, as any college freshman knows, a time to declare a major....but college majors may not …

"How do the hurricanes know when to start and stop forming? Do they watch Hurricane Central?" Of course not. This is really a matter of nomenclature rather than the conscious …

Consumers are increasingly dependent upon second-hand recommendations from total strangers when deciding where to spend our money. Whether we refer to reviews posted online, or studies conducted by people who …

Here are some really funny things that lawyers have actually said in courtrooms during trials....unbelievable.

It's the old, ugly story of racism and cruelty we all know too well, with a different story and an amazing, surprise ending. It's Whitehead's newest and the book I …

The dog book that had possibly the greatest influence on my understanding of and relationships with them, written by a brilliant writer/philosopher who's been rejected by the dog training establishment.

Writers are always trying to push the envelope of the languages in which they write. Shakespeare was a famous and shameless creator of new words, which were often so easily …

We examined everything involved in making a great cup of coffee at home before it goes into the coffee maker in Part One. In this edition we will discover why brewing …

…but there’s only one hour left before I won’t be able to publish this article,which is about the origin of All Fools’ Day, known today as April Fools’ Day, on …

Legendary singer and actor Jim Nabors passed away in Hawaii on November 30th, at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy as a gentle comedic actor with a superb …

Saturday afternoon, July 16, 2016,  as we were driving  along  Swinton Street in Delray Beach, FL, we came across a suspicious looking traffic stop, with two one-man police cruiser parked in …

Calvin Duncan knows a lot about prison; he spent 28 years there. “I was born in New Orleans but I was raised in Louisiana State penitentiary,” Duncan says. “I went …

Tom Petty was an unpretentious American original, a musician of rare talent, a singer blessed with unique voice, a story teller whose songs summarized four decades of the American experience...

I’ve been building websites since the early 1990s. That was long before WordPress appeared in 2003, so I was building websites with HTML, PHP, and a whole bunch of other …

104-year-old world renowned scientist David Goodall is leaving Australia to fly across the world to end his life in Switzerland. The lauded ecologist and botanist is not suffering from a …

There's an epidemic of drunkenness among the younger residents roosting in the small northeastern Minnesota town of Gilbert. where the town's avian residents are dive bombing the human residents of …

We have introduced a brand new category called Et Cetera, which is Latin for "so on and so forth" (or so we have been told.) We are encouraging our authors …