That would be Andrew Roberts's book, Winston Churchill, Walking With Destiny, all 964 pages of it. All 964 thin, single-spaced pages. I figure it took me about six months to read it, in fits and starts. It lives on my bedside table, right where I can see it, so I just decided to push on through. …
My black cat, Kikyo, loves being with me. Since I have been retired, I have spent a lot of time writing my blog, in my computer room on the second floor of our house. I usually do this when I wake up, and get dressed in the morning. Her normal behavior is meowing to be …
Take a look at what happened last night in Iceland. A volcano that had been dormant for about 6,000 years erupted, lighting up the night sky near the Iceland Capital of Reykjavik. Isn't this beautiful? It demonstrates the raw power of Nature. Maybe it thought that the humans were just getting too complacent, blaming the …
Continue reading In case you needed proof that Nature is more powerful than we are…
Are you one of the American people who, because the Health Nazis in your government have convinced you that the Wuhan Coronavirus means Death around every corner, has a fear of strangers? Are you reluctant to go out into your world without your face behind a mask, because if you don't you will get infected? …
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Life is full of Special Moments, if you will only open your eyes and notice. It's all in how you look at things. Just this past week, I was in my computer room, writing a post for this blog. When I write, I am pretty much oblivious to most of what's going on around me, …
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I'm just old-fashioned, because I love to receive paper catalogs in the mail. I don't consider them junk, and even if I don't know the retailer, I always look through every catalog I get before I throw it out. Most of the time lately, catalogs go into the recycle bin shortly after receipt with a …
It's been all over the news lately that some Dr. Seuss books, beloved by children and parents for decades, will be cancelled, by the Foundation that protects the author's legacy! This is ostensibly because they "display racist imagery". The Cancel Culture, which judges creations from the past by today's often-racist standards, is sweeping through Society, …
I have always said that, on our Planet Earth: Anywhere there Can be Life, there IS Life. And again I have been proven correct. It seems that a group of researchers in Antarctica have drilled a bore-hole a half-mile through an ice shelf, and found life at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean, where no …
Continue reading Once again, RushBabe49 is proved right. No niche on Earth is sterile.
Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British protectorate, on the border of Communist China. In 1899, Britain was granted a 99-year lease on the colony, and it became a thriving financial center, among other things. The population density of Hong Kong is remarkable, with numerous high-rise apartment buildings, and nearly 6700 people per square kilometer! …
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This is reprinted from a story at Fox News in its entirety. The headline reads: Kathryn Limbaugh gives update after late husband Rush Limbaugh is laid to rest. Kathryn Limbaugh, the widow of conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, is speaking out about the funeral that was held in her husband's honor and her future …
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