I recently read that this will be a tremendous year for gardening as folks are homebound and looking for activities that will get them outside. There is even talk about folks having Victory Gardens this year. A routine at our home for 25 years has been buying flowering baskets for display on our home’s wrap… Read more »

Our thought and prayers to you and your family as we continue the good fight. Perhaps when you were a kid, or now as a parent or grandparent, you spent time reading fables. Fables have been a part of humanity for centuries. In 600 BC, Aesop told of the Ant and the Grasshopper, The Brothers… Read more »

As many (if not most) of you know, I love history–Learning from those who faced challenges and interacted with friends (and former enemies) and learning why they did what they did. One aspect of being a lover of history is iconic pictures (pictures, after all, are worth 1,000 words) and paintings from those times. A picture that… Read more »

My wife and children (and others) poke fun at me for loving to mow so much. On the mower, with my iPod – for two hours (yep the yard is pretty big) I am in solitary bliss! They have often kidded me that I reminded them of Mr. Douglas (Eddie Albert) from the 60’s comedy… Read more »