To The Manner Born

One of the few Vietnamese words American's of a certain age know, beyond a few rudimentary menu words is TET, the Vietnamese word mea...

Prior to moving into the woods, Mrs. T and I lived in a typical cookie cutter suburban neighborhood.  The original settlers were offered a l...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published on this date 200 years ago. I love this book, especially how well written the mino...

Sometimes in life a guy just gets lucky. I've met some wonderful people via this blog, but none more so than my personal enabler AD...

There are hundreds of holidays around the globe that American's have never heard of, nor given any  thought to.  Today we celebrate A...

Get cozy and chill Tumblr American's hardly know and little care that today is Robert Burns Day (or Night), the anniversary of the ...

TTWD When Ted the Wonder Dog passed my son in law sent a long list of dog quotes to remember Ted by. It took several months before I c...

Once upon a time I questioned the motivation of the brave scientists who liberated 3 bottles of MacKinlay's finest  15 year old Scot...

At the end of the '69 baseball season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their long time centerfielder Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Ph...

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. II Timothy 4:7 Family hagiography leads one to believe ...

Who knew Milne and Poe were so closely connected? Toad

Laying around for the past several weeks I've amused myself by re-reading much of the AA Milne canon. How could I not love the creato...

He was simultaneously the most reviled and most revered sportsman in America.  The living embodiment of a n all-American Horatio Alger ra...

It wouldn't be out of line to wonder why, in Mayberry, 2 otherwise sensible people would marry on the the Ides of January.  The weddin...

In the late 1920's Bentley Motors decided the best way to advertise their very expensive sports cars was to build successful race ca...

Resourceful kids will always find ways to have fun. As long as no one gets seriously hurt, anything can be fun.  The trouble comes when p...

I came of age during the heyday of The Rocky and Bullwinkle show, waiting anxiously for this week's Fractured Fairy Tales. The Fractur...

He hated being called the King. His gospel roots rebelled at the notion, all he wanted was to be known as the entertainer. No one listene...

From: the Charles Addams Foundation Today would be the 101st. birthday of cartoonist Charles Addams, the creator of the The Addams F...

I change my computer background photo almost every day, but for the past three weeks this has been in place.  I'm mesmerized by a pho...