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Killing Lincoln, and Lincoln's Last Days
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
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14th Birthday Candles
Jennifer Fulwiler published this photo on Facebook, stating that this is what her son wanted for the candles on his 14th birthday....
You Know You're a Landlubber When....
I came upon the following in a book I'm reading: During the 1800s, a person got from one place to another one of four ways:...
American Terroir
American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Water, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen ( Bloomsbury , 2010) Score...
Proud of My Town
Altamonte Springs, Florida has been working on innovative water solutions as long as I can remember. It wasn't long...
Perspective
Some friends of mine live most of the time in Papua New Guinea, but are currently living in North Carolina. Truthfully, I've never...
Reacting When It's Crunch Time
I recently had the opportunity to read The Excellence Habit: How Small Changes in Our Mindset Can Make a Big Difference in Our...
Heidi
Heidi by Johanna Spyri Not long ago I had a chance to view this 2017 movie of Heidi . Unfortunately, Netflix...
Born Old
When you are young you write either romantic or depressive poetry or both. When you are older, you write stories of whatever genre....
Thank You, Google
There are plenty of times I grumble about Google, but not today. As I work my way through the nearly 5,000 photos and assorted...
It's Complicated
I don't care if your question is about climate change or about your niece's latest romance, I can answer it with two words: It's...
Jah Sister, Nah Sister
During our recent visit to the Netherlands with our Swiss grandchildren, we enjoyed a visit to the Openluchtmuseum...
It Only Encourages Them
In one of the early episodes of the TV show Monk , Adrian Monk's assistant, Sharona Fleming, explains, "I never vote; it only...
The Missing Piece
As usual, jet lag is kicking me on the return trip. (The outbound trip is much easier, for several reasons.) I had thought I was over it...
The Blue Screen of Blindness?
The infamous Blue Screen of Death is all too familiar to my generation of Windows users. It may be that blue screens are now causing...
Nobody Wants to Read your Sh*t
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is and What You Can Do about It by Steven Pressfield ( Black Irish...
Tolkien on Language
From J. R. R. Tolkien, in The Return of the King , Appendix F. In those days all the enemies of the Enemy revered what was...
We Interrupt This Beautiful Day for a Whine Break
I first noticed it when Porter was working with coworkers from India, part of the great outsourcing/offshoring boom in the early part of...
Rain
We're home after a month overseas, and it's raining. Europe has been experiencing a drought so severe that our Viking River Cruise...
The Serpent and the Dove
I try hard not to judge a president, for good or for ill, until years after his term has ended. History does much to clear the clouded...
UR Beats UT Austin to Take Quidditch World Cup
The University of Rochester is the alma mater of three quarters of our immediate family. I've never had much of what they call school...
The Complete World War I Diary of Hezekiah Scovil Porter
For the past several months we have been posting, day by day, Porter's transcription of the World War I diary kept by Hezekiah Scovil...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, The Last Day
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued There is no more to Hezekiah Scovil Porter's diary, save some...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 163
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 162
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...