Lifestyles

I do my best thinking when I am staring out a window.

Imagine if every Catholic school team honored our Lord and our Blessed Mother in some different ways before and after games

As you go about your day, please look for the late summer flowers and enjoy them. Be sure to savor the moment. Like the summer of 1913, or the summer of ’39 or ’41, especially when we don’t know what lies ahead we can always thank God for today

Here in South Dakota the vine remains inextricably entwined in the memories of my childhood—bittersweet memories, rekindled in these bittersweet woods

The weapons cache was most likely hidden by Jewish rebels some 1,900 years ago after being seized from Roman forces

Awesome! The people in that restaurant got a real treat

Survival in Tough Times: As you read this, dear reader, that little burg is still there, like a thousand others scattered across the Heartland, and good people live and work there

Future Lawyer or Interrogater for the FBI or Government

Legends die hard, and this one is no different. But I have learned a valuable lesson from this experience. This year I am placing several hedge balls outside my house--to draw these little critters out. After all, even crickets need homes

The Indiana University: I had landed at a place that turned out to be wonderful, and I had only just arrived

Survival in Tough Times: The Ultimate Weapon

Both it, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off are well worth seeing, and if you're a collector who doesn't own either or both of these films, these are definitely the best versions to get

Survival in Tough Times: Unequal justice is no justice at all

Survival in Tough Times: A gaggle this nice is something you don’t see every day.

Bottom line here is that if you're a fan of either film, you'll want these 4K versions because they offer the best way to enjoy the films. As long as you don't expect a bunch of extras

Survival in Tough Times: Last week was the last week of July. That means here in the Heartland it’s supposed to be hot and humid so we can have lots of corn. It’s July. It’s supposed to be hot and humid, thank God!

Reminders may be found in antique shops, junkyards, old barns, thrift shops, cemeteries, and proper museums. I may run into you coming around the corner where the player piano rolls and the Blackhawk corn shellers are waiting for us

A sad, sad, sad commentary on our mobile instant-gratification lives

Survival in Tough Times: It was part of a world long gone, but a world we can recall at will. The memories are in color, I just realized

The only explanation of greatness and longevity in two important fields of music is fate

May God Bless Manshook “May” Robinson and the United States of America.

Survival in Tough Times: So they’re murmuring and tut-tutting about Biden, but I don’t hear them saying they’d do anything different. Strange, isn’t it? What would you bet there’s another election year coming up soon? Don’t be fooled

Survival in Tough Times: We should not let a day go by that we don’t thank our lucky stars that we came along after the miracle of the Industrial Revolution

Golfer Jon Rahm Rodriguez produced a superb shot that skimmed off the water before slowly rolling its way into the hole

And you can pretty well say the same about the 4K disc presentation: it ain't the best if you're into reference quality audio and video, but it's a fine representation of the movie anyway, with very good HDR picture and reasonable lossless sound

So anyone wishing to avoid responsibility will find the capabilities of AI mesmerizing. For the rest of us the only sensible response to this isn’t just “No.” It’s “Oh, Hell no!”

Survival in Tough Times: Crackle’s lyrics and his guitar part are the best to my way of thinking, and what I always sing. Which is your favorite, dear reader?

Survival in Tough Times: Lessons the old Studebaker taught me

So he ran over, wrapped him in a sleeping mattress, gave him oxygen, put him on his back, and hiked him 6 hours down the mountain to safety