“Whatever You Are, Be a Good One”

    I’ve always loved history. It was one of my favorite subjects throughout my career as a home-schooler. The parallels between centuries past and modern times never fail to surprise me. And on occasion, when I am brought back to a favorite...

You Dirty Rat!

    For the past 19 years I have been believing a fallacy! Can you believe it? All these years, and I’ve had it completely wrong. Will my life ever be the same? How does one even begin to pick up the pieces?     I must...

And You May Ask Yourself, How Did I Get Here?

Click the pictures to see my baby album!     In just three weeks I will no longer be a teenager. Another decade of my life will have passed. On February the eighth, I’ll be twenty years old. It’s a little bit scary, a little bit...

History (not so) Buff

    I learned something interesting last night. I always knew my ancestors were a rough-n-tumble bunch, but I never knew how well-timed their despicable behavior could be. One dude somehow ticked off the Detroit mafia, there were a few interesting...

Birds, Blogs, and Bleugh

    As I was coming upstairs earlier this evening, I looked out the front windows and saw the absolute coolest fog I’ve ever seen. It was literally like walking in a thin cloud. The neighbor’s yard looked like a scene out of Sleepy...

A Generous Generation

Richard M. McCarthy     Around three o’clock this afternoon my friendly neighborhood UPS man showed up with a remarkable surprise – three hundred and thirty pounds of books. As you may know, I’ve been running a book drive through...