June 10, 2024 0 Flood For Your Right to Party? In the spring of 1993, it rained in the Midwestern United States. That’s not unusual — rain and spring go [...]
June 7, 2024 0 The Best Movies I’ve Watched Over the Last Three+ Years Hi! Over the pandemic, many of us started new projects and adopted new hobbies, myself included. One of the [...]
June 6, 2024 0 The Case of the Mousey Soup The life of a mouse is not a very glamorous one. Provided that you, the mouse, leave human beings alone, [...]
June 4, 2024 0 The Problem With Flying With Marshmallows Pictured above is a flødeboller, a Danish confection created in or around 1901. You’re probably familiar [...]
June 3, 2024 0 A Bad Way to Get a Woman’s Motor Running In March 1994, a young woman in Spain received an anonymous letter in the mail. It was hand-addressed and [...]
May 31, 2024 0 The Weekender, May 31, 2024 Hi! With the holiday this week, I don’t have a lot to share in this space this week. So let’s keep this [...]
May 29, 2024 0 The House Made Out of Smartphones? If you want to buy a house, in many places, you don’t need to have cash on hand to meet the full purchase [...]
May 28, 2024 0 The School With Solar Powered Salaries Batesville, Arkansas is a small city in the northeastern part of the state. (Here’s a map.) It’s home to [...]
May 24, 2024 0 Three “Facts” (Maybe?) I Couldn’t Nail Down Hi! I like to think I have high standards when it comes to what I share on these pages. There are a lot of [...]
May 23, 2024 0 How One of America’s Largest Malls Avoids Scary Utility Bills The Mall of America is located in Bloomington, Minnesota, just a few miles outside Minneapolis/St. Paul. It [...]