To The Manner Born

I like soldiers. I like ours, I like theirs. Throughout history, soldiers have mostly been obedient kids, doing a job their elders told the...

Reading To Kill a Mockingbird in grade school, I naturally assumed at the time that since the book was set in the '30's Nelle Harpe...

Guernica by Pablo Picasso On this date in 1937, German and Italian bombers at the behest of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who is STILL dea...

Is this beautiful spring making you unusually happy? Too full of life's good cheer? The smell of honeysuckle and lilac in the morning m...

from Tumblr This from Debra D. Bass, fashion editor of Sunday's St. Louis Post Dispatch . See if you can tell where I quit reading. ...

I'm unlikely to hurt your feelings by saying "We are all voyeurs." It's part of the human condition. We snoop, we eavesdr...

From our friends at Graphjam.com I envy the stamina and dedication to duty the Qu...

with thanks to Up Magazine, the humor magazine of the Upper Peninsula. Toad

Fellow bloggers, Occasionally, in their infinite wisdom Google changes the magic which makes Blogger work. Ofttimes the magic has unintended...

General Doolittle thanking the workers at the B-25 plant Pre-Viet Nam, long before children had rights, young boys with toy guns in hand wou...

18 April 1912 From Carpathia To: William Mansfield Washington Street Morristown, N.J. Safe on Carpathia. Telephone friends Newark, New York...

Today is Patriot's Day in New England. A day long set aside in New England for remembering the battles of Lexington and Concord, the fi...

Traditionally, US personal income tax returns are due April 15th. American's spend billions of dollars on tax preparers in the hopeful,...

U.S.President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.. His death the next morning, forever...

Selling books about bucket lists is big business so perhaps they have persuaded you to create one. This is a story about someone's list...

Remember when mother would take you to the department store? It was a big deal. Shopping then wasn't far removed from Miracle on 34th St...

We are each our own worst critics, and my horizontal seersucker suit had been quietly festering, until yesterday. You must thoroughly under...

When the student is ready the teacher will come, or in my case the builder. Six years ago, in honor of my bride's love of horses, we pu...

Along with being a forgetful gardener I am also overly patient. While in some parts of the country wisteria is a deer resistant nuisance wee...

Happy Easter friends, and thank you. Rejoice, we may now wear white. With Meg Fairfax Fielding of Pigtown Design Summer 2011 Earlier that d...