Your Sound Choice
Back in my college days, I had a first draft of a term paper handed back to me with the comment, “Using the definition of a term for your introduction is not a good way to start a paper. Try it again.” With that lesson learned, I never repeated that mistake. Fifty years later, I […]
Okay, how many of you are willing to date yourselves by identifying the source of the following tag line, “How sweet it is!”? When did it become part of our common culture and to whom do you attribute this phrase? This is a bit of a trick question because most of us of […]
After enough people asked if Will Farrell was related to Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, a comedic moment was born. For his part, Smith even began sporting a shirt with Farrell’s likeness and the caption “I AM NOT WILL FARRELL”. Jimmy Fallon’s musical sensibilities have seen him engineer some interesting musical moments and […]
The Turtles almost didn’t happen. Call it fate or kismet or whatever, but one of the top selling bands of the late 1960s were DOA and then they weren’t (more on this in a bit). When vocalist Mark Voman passed away in September of 2025, it prompted me to find a copy of his […]
In each issue of a quarterly publication called The Planetary Report, the Planetary Society includes a trivia question. Some are more challenging than others and everybody that emails in the correct answer has their name tossed into a random drawing for a free tee shirt. Having sent in my entry religiously over the years, […]
I am no world traveler, but ever since I graduated from high school, I have managed to visit both coasts of our fair country and a handful of places in between. My first trip by air was a modest one. My brother Ron had just finished his first year of teaching in downstate Chesaning […]
It has been a while since we did a quiz to shake up the old grey matter, and thanks to our friends at AARP magazine, we have another fun one to share. We tacked on a few questions with local appeal and (as we have done in the past), the answers begin near the […]
In the summer of 2025, we said ‘good bye’ to a Monarch. No, not the royal kind. I am talking about our trusty Monarch wood burning furnace. They discontinued making these amazing units some time ago, but we were blessed to have had such a reliable workhorse of a heating unit for 46 winters. Perhaps […]
In the final run up to the first manned Moon landing in 1969, NASA was still working on the final configuration of the Apollo spacecraft. The orbiting Command Module (CM) was in fine shape but there were things that needed to be tweaked on the Lunar Module (LM) that would land on the surface. […]
Well kids – we have worked out the logistics for our new tower bays and we have just about enough money to cover the order. That is the good news. The bad news (of course there is always bad with the good) is we may not be able to install them until June – if […]