Gentlemen, Start Your Noise Pollution Engines
We saw a robin yesterday and — especially in light of last week’s devastating ice storm — were elated with the chirping of this first harbinger of spring. But I forgot about that other harbinger of...
View ArticleDecoration Day, or How Memorial Day Began as a Black Holiday
If we had lived a century ago, we would be celebrating Decoration Day today, instead of Memorial Day. While the patriotic sentiment of honoring the fallen remains the same, the holiday, originally...
View ArticleAntique Postcards Celebrate July Fourth and Uncle Sam
During the “Golden Age” of postcards, c. 1901-1915, people mailed postcards to one another at almost any time, including the Fourth of July. July Fourth and Halloween postcards tended to be the most...
View ArticleWalter Cronkite Dies, and That’s the Way It Is
Legendary CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, 92, died this evening of cerebrovascular disease. Before CNN and the cable television explosion, before websites and blogs and social networking and...
View ArticleTry Some Treats from a California Chef
Once in awhile, you meet someone who’s just so cool that you want to tell the world. Unlike my “neighbor,” who suddenly showed up one day at the back door — squinting through the Venetian blinds — and...
View ArticleWhite House Christmas Tree Arrives for Holiday Season
Two Belgian draft horses bedecked in red Christmas bows pulled a traditional horse-drawn carriage up Pennsylvania Ave. today in Washington, DC, stopping at the North Portico of the White House to...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from Uncle Sam, Plus Great Dinner Rolls
Happy Thanksgiving from Uncle Sam, and those of us who work at Pajamadeen to bring you great WordPress websites! I’m truly proud of, and thankful for, the talented people who make Pajamadeen what it...
View ArticleA Kentucky White Christmas
It’s the first white Christmas I can ever recall seeing in Kentucky. There have only been a handful since 1872. The flakes began swirling gently around 6:00 p.m.; ever the wuss, Penelope Puppy went...
View ArticlePicking Blackberries
As anyone who’s ever picked blackberries knows, there are some “prices” to be paid, as is the case with many choices in life. The primary issue (besides the 110 – 112° F. heat we’ve experienced over...
View ArticleBoston Changes Everything
It was a beautiful, flawless day in Boston. It was Patriots’ Day, a wildly popular civic holiday celebrating the first battles of the American Revolution. School was out, spring was in the air, it was...
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