To The Manner Born

I worry that I'm becoming a hoarder. If I like something I buy several, just in case I'm never able to find another. Lately, I...

Snowy Mountain by Cui Ruzhuo Real life is so much better than make believe.  The painting above, Snowy Mountain by Chinese artist Cui...

I'm having a difficult time moving out of vacation mode. I'm tired, sore and unmotivated, for that I blame Fitbit's weekly stat ...

To my mind, a late Easter calls for men to wear seersucker, and for the first time in a decade, I awoke Sunday morning without benefit of...

Several years ago I reached out to Mr. David Bagwell, esteemed Fairhope, Alabama attorney and overall nice guy in an effort to persuade ...

Nubile, once simply meant of marriageable age (street legal) now has such ugly connotations.  At the cost of outing myself as a MCP, thin...

Home again, home again, jiggity jog. It's always good to go, but so much better to come home. Florida was lovely, with only 2 lou...

Mr. President: It is with pain that I announce to Your Excellency the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. The operations which pr...

On this day, 20 years after Columbus "discovered" North America, a Spaniard, Juan Ponce De Leon "discovered" the fountai...

The unexamined life is not worth living sayeth Socrates. I received a FitBit Flex fitness tracker for my birthday, I love it. This is ...

In Sunday's  (30 March, 2014) St. Louis Post Dispatch:  Sarah knows her art and her craft, I suspect a 20 yo editor in the fuel supply.(...

I once prided myself on knowing how to behave.  I may not have behaved, but mother, reinforced by father, beat good manners into her sons.  ...

A story in the New Orleans Times Picayune caught my eye.  The Haspel family, creators of the American seersucker suit had re-purchased t...

Sir Roger Doughty Tischborne Baronet or Butcher? by Carlo Pellegrini (Ape) published in Vanity Fair June 6, 1871 Old families livin...

Oil on canvas- Carlo Pellegrini by Jules Bastien Lepage Maxminimus photo One of the greatest newspaper marketing ideas ever was Thomas...

Tichborne Dole-1671 As the New Yorker says, there will always be an England. This is one of the thousands of reasons why. The Tichb...

I'm trying something new this year- I'm becoming a tryer.  I am by nature happier with the old, the tried, the what I know, but t...

unhistorical : March 22, 1933:  Dachau concentration camp  opens. Dachau concentration camp, located in the southern German state o...