To The Manner Born

There are lots of bits of information we "know" that we simply haven't processed.  That was brought home to me yesterday w...

One hundred years ago this month Floridian Percival Elliot Fanvil, having read about the safety of airplanes which took off and landed o...

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 ...

I feel much safer knowing that Google is protecting me from myself. Orwell may have been right after all. Toad

The era's greatest advertising team Chiat/Day had just completed showing their latest, greatest, best ad ever to Apple's board.  The...

"If you can't be handsome, be handy"  Smarting over our defeat in the French and Indian War of the 1750's (The...

Port magazine photo Foodies of our acquantance give Mrs. T high marks for her culinary achievements. She enjoys cooking and sharing wh...

Scott at the Pole 18 January 1912 Wilson, Scott, Oates, Bowers, Evans "Wednesday January 17,1912  Camp 69, T.-22 degrees at ...

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the...

My bride is not likely from this planet.  It's the only explanation.  Regularly, it becomes necessary for one of us to explain the cultu...

Today is the tenth anniversary of Spalding Gray's death . I miss seeing him perform. Mayberry was a regular stop during his monologu...

The King was in his counting house looking for his money Today's entry, from Project Gutenberg, is  a story published in the Decem...

"January 8th is also a very important day for the principality of Monaco. It was on this day 717 years ago when a Genoan thug of some i...

Today is the christian feast of the epiphany, believed to be the day 3 kings (wise men) visited the infant Jesus.  In rural Ireland the d...

Our family was gifted a weeks use of a condo on Captiva Island on the gulf coast of Florida. Mistakenly, we let the kids choose when to ...

Since Christmas is rarely warm in Mayberry I have a difficult time imaging the holidays held in mid summer glory as celebrated by our fri...

So you've decided to join the gym for New Years, congratulations, you've done the right thing.  I've watched a number of resolut...

I like you just the way you are. However, if you are hell bent on making New Years resolutions have the decency and courtesy to avoid ...

As Barry Manilow sang, it looks like we've made it.  We've survived long enough to once again celebrate Hogmany. Hogmany is th...

From The Straight Dope message board . The thread is illuminating. The Death of Bullwinkle You may have heard that Bullwinkle the M...