To The Manner Born

Spring please come quickly. This is not a poodle, with a frou frou hair cut. It's a Shih Tzu home from an afternoon playing in the snow....

Friends: The beautiful photo of Central Park in snow, I used for a header this week was taken by one of my favorite bloggers, the inimitable...

American's are very good at ignoring the world. We're taught little and remember less. Geography? Oh yea, its capital is Berlin. ...

I. I stole this lock stock and bagel from If it's hip it's here Gents, wondering what to get the mother of your children, grandma,...

Much of Missouri was hit hard yesterday by the snow man. Not Mayberry. The storm of historical proportions passed us by. Monday was rainy, ...

Lest the Feds, or worse, come banging on my door too early some morning let us be clear, I say this tongue firmly in cheek. That said: I can...

Have you noticed the days growing longer? The ancients did and created stories and rituals not only to convey and value, but to prove this ...

Mrs. Kay Kyser

Like the school boy with neglected homework I've always been, I am a winter bad weather junkie and today I've hit the lottery. We ha...

"She was 41 on January 31 and there are those who maintain that on a clear night she doesn't look a minute younger" George ...

http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/resources/smokers "Tobacco is a stinking weed It was the Devil sow'...

Another in a series of mostly Saturday posts. Why are the most items in our pantry so bland? How much could it cost to add a bit of humor, o...

What a map it was. Many thanks to Patsy for sending this story. In the 1800's the United States Coast Survey , now part of the Nationa...

I began blogging as a way to share with my geographically distant children some of the family stories from before their time, impart some sm...

Just this once, because he's a good guy, I am putting on my sales hat. I received an email from regular reader Seth saying he has a stas...

Scroll 3/4 down to see Monopoly sites today Once upon a time I wrote about escape maps , maps on cloth used by the military to assist flight...

It's Robert Burns Day, the birthday of Scotland's favorite poet, and holder of the title Greatest Ever Scot. Robby can be a tough sl...

We've (that's royal) come to like Prince Albert slippers a lot, so while planning holiday festivities it became obvious we needed an...

Mayberry is a river town that turned its back on the river in its earliest days. What is now the town evolved from a Spanish land grant in ...

I have no truck with Oprah Winfrey. Her daily program, and now her network are a constant background noise in our house. I suspect she'...