To The Manner Born

A long, long time ago… I can still remember how That music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, That I could make those peo...

I caught a lot of off line grief over my white oxford cloth suit idea. Not having given up hope that my critics are perhaps over zealous in ...

I've written several times about my fascination with maps, I find them endlessly entertaining. Put 2 boys who like maps together, mix i...

At the cost of proving my technological Amishness, allow me state that Google+1 leaves me cold. Perhaps, I don't understand its utility,...

They never (hardly) saw the '70's. Their last live concert-the rooftop concert- thrilling all on Saville Row until broken up by the...

the lower Chambeshi river by Phil Harwood Fellow armchair adventurers may recall Scottish explorer David Livingstone in 1877 was the first E...

This news item jolted me out of my reverie earlier in the week. I find it fascinating. Most Americans can name the early US Presidents up t...

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #373 by Kahlil Gibran (1st draft) A young woman stepped forward from the throng and asked, "0' great proph...

Once again I come hat in hand, asking my favorite, most informed friends where to find that which I cannot. I'm looking for shirt weigh...

American's hardly know and little care that today is Robert Burns Day (or Night), the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poe...

Every now and them I am blindsided by my perhaps willful ignorance. Years of expensive private education hasn't saved my from myself ye...

Dear Hallmark Channel: I've a bone to pick with you. This past weekend you aired all twelve hours of the Jane Oke's inspired miseri...

I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking. -- James Beard (1903-1985). D...

While not actually shopping for one as much as hoping to find one at a garage sale, but at least on my wish list of somedays, is an Eames Al...

Are you familiar with the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe? On this his birthday I present his most autobiographical poem, Alone. "Alone...

If you were young when television was in its infancy, you can't help but to be amazed by how much the world has changed. Some of us may...

I began wearing bow ties exclusively some ten years ago in response to a disagreement with Mrs. T over neck ties. We tend to disapprove of ...

All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied ...

My blogger profile describes me as the happiest married man ever. It's true. More so everyday. I'm blessed beyond imagining. My ...

To honor the Roald Dahl fans and stamp collectors amongst us, the British Post office has just released a set of Roald Dahl postage stamps i...