November 27, 2024
When I was growing up, I had a great Uncle named Sam. He was both my great Uncle and also great as an uncle, who was […]
November 20, 2024
A friend of mine has a magnifying glass with a beautiful carved gemstone handle on it. She told me it belonged to her aunt who she […]
November 13, 2024
There is something interesting in the world of statistics called ‘The Birthday Paradox’. It is so named because if you ask the average person what size […]
November 6, 2024
I was out to dinner the other night at a restaurant with a large group, and three people who were sitting right next to one another […]
October 30, 2024
There is an old toy car that’s been in my family for decades and the way that it works is you put it on a flat […]
October 23, 2024
I heard a song I liked the other day and went to buy the album that the song is on, and when I got to the […]
October 16, 2024
This morning while I was making coffee, I was looking down at the box the coffee came in and it said on there “bold yet refined, […]
October 9, 2024
When the final scene of the iconic series The Sopranos ended, viewers were left with a dark screen, the sound of a ringing bell over a […]
October 2, 2024
In Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent 2005 book “Blink”, he interviews two food tasters who have just excellent and perceptive pallets. During the interview, it’s sort of a […]
