Do you know what yesterday was?  I’m sure you do because we have longed for it all winter.  Yesterday was the first day of spring! There is something exhilarating about this time of year.  There are the springtime smells of fresh dirt as gardens and fields are prepared for planting.  The spring air will soon… Read More »

When you read the word Nevada, what’s the first thing that pops into your mind?  Is it … Hover Dam? – “Constructed during the Great Depression, not only does the dam protect Southern California and Arizona from devastating floods but it also irrigates over 1.5 million acres of land, supplies water to over 16 million… Read More »

History is full of names like Jesús Corona, Alfred Vanderbilt, and Todd Beamer.  And, on this National Ultimate Sacrifice Day, we want to take a moment to remember some of their acts of heroism that resulted in the lives of others being saved at the expense of their own. Jesús Garcia Corona worked for the… Read More »

Life isn’t stagnant, that’s for sure.  Things are constantly changing and in flux all around us.  Sometimes, the changes are nearly imperceptible.  Other times, they happen in the blink of an eye. In the 1930s, you could pay for a tank of gas from the spare change in your pocket.  A gallon of gasoline was… Read More »

The culture in which we live leads us to believe that certain things have gone by the wayside.  Very few know how to make their own clothes, much less sew on a simple button.  And does anyone darn socks anymore or does the holey footwear just get tossed in the garbage?  Every year, more and… Read More »

Today is National Shoe The World Day.  The day began in 2014 in recognition of the estimated 300 million people globally who are considered impoverished and cannot afford a pair of shoes. Here in America, there is an infatuation with shoes.  It is suggested that the average woman owns 20 pairs of shoes but only… Read More »

Happy Pi Day!!!  Some of you think that I spelled that wrong.  But all the mathematical geniuses posing as lovable geeks and nerds know exactly what today is all about.  Pi “is the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. While the idea of pi has been known for nearly 4000 years,… Read More »

Benjamin Franklin was quite the character in Colonial America.  He is credited with numerous accomplishments.  Not only was he a significant contributor to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, but he was also the first Postmaster General, ran extensive experiments with electricity that featured the infamous kite and key resulting… Read More »

MSN.com had an interesting and fun article.  It was titled 20 Phrases Baby Boomers Say That No One Else Understands.  In case you are wondering if you are a Boomer, you would need to have been born between 1946 and 1964.  This means you are between the ages of 60 and 78.  I missed this… Read More »

It’s hard to believe that it has been four years since our world was turned upside down and shaken like a rag doll in a pit bull’s mouth.  It was on this day in 2020 that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office, declaring… Read More »