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What Are You, Nuts?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:00:03 +0000

Written in commemoration of National Nut Day In the Olduvai Gorge of Africa over 1,000,000 years ago, they enjoyed them, placing them on top of rocks and gingerly tapping them, one by one, until each was released, a repetition leaving small circular indentations in the stones surviving to this day. Because they could be collected from [...]

The Bitter Taste of What We Take

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:00:57 +0000

I was introduced to two adrenaline-rushing moments at once, as his big, pimply face slammed up beside one side of mine, and I heard the quiet slink of a switchblade opening near the other side.

How to Be Interesting in Social Media

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:00:33 +0000

“To be a person is to have a story to tell.” - Isak Dinesen Written for October 5th, in commemoration of National Storytelling Festival Day… Aristotle wrote in his treatise Poetics that there are seven golden rules to being successful in telling a story – plot, character, theme, dialogue, chorus, décor and spectacle. Learning to [...]

Embracing the Stranger

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:09 +0000

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.  ~ Francis Bacon The day was September 15, 2001, just four days after we held each other in front of our televisions, watching our combined sense of security explode, disintegrate, tumble to the very ground before [...]

The Michtoms and their Teddy Bear

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:00:53 +0000

Prior to the introduction of soft, cuddly Teddy Bears into American society, bears were considered to be symbols of strength and ferocity – likely because Americans hadn’t been long-removed from their pioneer roots. One never thought to hug one of the cute little babies of the sharp-toothed and long-clawed denizens of the American forest. How [...]

Pardon Me, Please?

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:12 +0000

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. ~ Richard M. Nixon Sept. 8th is National Pardon Day.  Today commemorates our nation’s ideals with regard to political (and perhaps personal) forgiveness. The very idea that a politician, after the initial shock and let-down we share at discovering their guilt, after having been tried by [...]

Grandma Moses and Ivy Bean

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:00:43 +0000

Does it seem that, everywhere around us, the young are taking over the world?  With the takeover of our daily lives by shape-shifting push-button technologies and new, sometimes flighty forms of personal interaction, are the elderly getting lost in the shuffle?  Perhaps not… Grandma Moses Day September 7th is Grandma Moses Day, a celebration of the [...]

V-J (Victory over Japan) Day

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:00:45 +0000

On September 2, 1945, on board the U.S.S. Missouri, World War II was officially declared over.  President Harry S. Truman and Japan’s Emperor Hirohito signed the Potsdam Surrender Declaration, on a simple table placed on the battleship’s deck, in Tokyo Bay. To be sure, the end to the conflict with Japan came as welcome news [...]

Emma M. Nutt : The First Telephone Operator

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:15:23 +0000

132 years ago to this day, Emma M. Nutt took the job as the very first female telephone operator in history, for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company.  Remember good old fashioned telephone operators? Well, Boston native Emma did this job for over 30 years, enjoying every minute of it. This may come as a [...]

World Sauntering Day

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:46:41 +0000

August 28th is World Sauntering Day.  Webster’s English Dictionary labels a saunter as “a leisurely stroll, or walk.”  To me, with up to five children regularly in tow, the ability to saunter is a certain measure of discovered control in an otherwise action-filled life.  When (and if) I can simply walk in a wayward manner, [...]

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