I predict, given a few variations of the word predict, is an uncommonly common theme in our world. At the present time the news is full of polls about what will happen in early November. The articles in the news are full of why this one or that one will or won’t be the winner. […]

The Olympic Games have been going on since August 5th. And they are about to end as you read this. If you have been watching, you know that NBC identifies them as the 31st Olympiad. You also know that it has been most interesting so far. The “final Five” won women’s gymnastics in a breeze. […]

Most likely it was a happy 240th birthday for the United States. It seems like a new country compared to ones in Europe. When is a country a country? That is very hard to define. A single date may exist only in what is commonly practiced. Take us for instance we celebrate the founding of […]

Do you recognize the name Hera? More likely you are more familiar with the name Juno. Well this isn’t a test; it is just an opening salvo on the month of June. Hera happens to be the Greek Goddess version of the Roman Goddess Juno that is the name of the month. Both were in […]

What History do you know? Now, that is an interesting question. Napoleon had probably the best short definition when he said “History is the version of past events that people have agreed upon.” We all have experienced the situation where folks don’t agree. Sometimes that disagreement leads to a war. Then the folks say that […]