Saw a meme about something they are calling digital blackface. That’s what they are calling it if a white person posts a meme to express an emotion using a gif or meme of a black person. This is an… Continue reading

  Today I’m posting blog number 5000. That’s right, five thousand times I’ve written about something. My very first post was on August 19, 2010. That was exactly 5,115 days ago. So, I didn’t post one hundred and fifteen times… Continue reading

  I have done quite a bit of work on the family tree. It’s an interesting pastime made easy by today’s technology. Without Ancestry.com and the internet I surely wouldn’t have “discovered” as much as I have. I particularly enjoy… Continue reading

  Just another remembrance of my grandmother’s house. She always, and I mean always, had a pot of coffee on. That’s how she said that, the coffee is on. She had an electric percolator, a concession to the modern world… Continue reading

  Read an article about a Boston Red Sox player that was suspended for two days without pay for using a “anti-gay” slur. Reportedly he was being heckled throughout the game by this individual and he responded by calling him… Continue reading

 While many are busying claiming this or that, their heritage, as it is being called, I find myself on the outside of that. I make no claims on cultural heritage. I’m just an American. That’s how I view myself. I… Continue reading

  I’ve said it often enough, I’m not one much for fad or fashion. What I mean by that is that I’ve never been one to be much concerned with any of that. I think it is the result of… Continue reading

 We have all had our encounters with auto correct. Sometimes it does amuse us and at others can cause confusion or embarrassment. I can hear that being used as an excuse, it was auto correct, I didn’t write that. A… Continue reading

  The city states attorney for Baltimore is a man named Ivan Bates. I rather like his policies and his thinking. He is a Democrat. He does rub his fellow Democrats in the city leadership the wrong way at times.… Continue reading

  Today we have infomercials that can last for a half hour or longer extolling the latest new thing. We’ve come a long way from the days of those ads from Ronco and K-Tel. You do have to be from… Continue reading