It is now the time of those in-between days. I am a bit too old for all that self-renewal stuff. Yes it is the coming of a new year and I wi...

Its all about the birth of Jesus, right? Except on the day after Christmas, it is all about getting the garbage out to the street on time ...

In the holiday spirit, I printed a new recipe for cookies from one of those foodie sights out in the vast Internet. We really had not be...

I was lucky to get the Grands last week. Mom and Dad had one of their dressy Christmas parties in the city with an overnight in the hotel...

No holiday parties to attend except for the organizations to which we donate and those parties have come and gone without us.   They are ni...

Taken early this morning as the sun was coming up. All those sweetness and light ads making you assume that Christmas is about buying s...

" Cardi B Shares First Photo of Daughter Kulture Hours After Announcing Offset Split "  It took me a minute or two, or honestly, ...

OK, now for Part II. If you have not gone ahead and listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Season 3 podcasts 3 and 4 on Revisionist History,...

A bookshelf of stories from a friend's house. I am sure that many of us have sat around the holiday table and told a story from our ...

This list was made without forethought for order or importance. Just a thankfulness list off the top of my head in a stream of consciousn...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and like many holidays, is being viewed with less rosy eyes by its citizens.  Some see ...

Some of these animals are not native and even invasive and others were once endangered but are now fairly common due to federal...

I may have mentioned that there is racial and cultural prejudice in Aloha land. I saw it slightly when I lived there as a grad student deca...

I was hot- a- lot of the time in Hawaii! I do not know why it seemed that way to me because I came from the Mid-Atlantic at the end of our h...

Since Monday is Veterans Day in the United States, this post on the Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor Park seem appropriate a few days early...