License Plate Mania

When we went to Florida on vacation in 1997, my wife and I noticed how many different variations a Florida license plate can have.  There was a standard plate, a save the manatees plate, a save the panther plate, a help the children plate, a support our troops, a Florida State Seminoles plate, a Miami Hurricanes [...]

The Given Day

For Christmas, I received about eight new books.  They were mostly presidential biographies because I hadn’t read any works of history lately and I get that itch from time to time.  But since I’d been immersed in older, classic fiction for a while, I also wanted some new fiction, so my wife also got me [...]

Lowdown Dirty Shame

I am not tall.  According to the US Army (long story), I’m officially 5′ 7 1/4″.  Thanks to the long-legged beauty I married, my 13-year old son is already as tall as me.  If you included every single man on the Earth, which would include billions of Chinese and Indian men who are generally my height [...]

Heartfelt Congratulations

It was announced a couple of hours ago that Jim Rice, my favorite baseball player ever, was finally elected to the Hall of Fame.  It is an honor which I strongly feel he deserved, and though I know his Hall of Fame case wasn’t clear-cut, I think Rice has earned the right to bask in [...]