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A Stubborn American Icon
October 26th, 2009
What is a Mule?
Today is National Mule Day, a day to celebrate an animal that science says should never have happened. Mules ...
A Welcoming Nature
October 23rd, 2009
Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as ...
What Are You, Nuts?
October 22nd, 2009
In the Olduvai Gorge of Africa over 1,000,000 years ago, they enjoyed them, placing them on top of rocks and gingerly tapping them, ...
A Return to True Beauty
October 20th, 2009
In thousands of beauty pageants across America, she stands there, an aura around her as she tries with all of her might ...
Noah Webster's American Language Revolution
October 16th, 2009
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ...
Salem's Bad Rye and Eye of Newt
October 12th, 2009
It was a cold, hard, bitter Winter in 1692. Many of the tiny lonesome towns along the Eastern seaboard had spent the ...
The Origins of the Frappé
October 7th, 2009
Today is Frappé Day. Most of us have tried a version of one. Some of you may not admit enjoying such a pretty ...
The Bitter Taste of What We Take
October 6th, 2009
"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned." -- Thomas Jefferson
There is a profound difference between the ...
How to Be Interesting in Social Media
October 5th, 2009
"To be a person is to have a story to tell." - Isak Dinesen
Aristotle wrote in his treatise Poetics that there are ...
Chewing Gum : A Short History
September 30th, 2009
It has always mystified me, the concept that what I am eating, at some point in our past, had never been eaten ...