We all have a birthday month, and for that matter a certain day in that month. It is always interesting to see if any one famous, other than you, was born in that month. Just in case you might think you are not famous, look it up. Merriam Webster says ‘famous’ is someone known to […]

Beware the Ides of March!  This is said to be what a soothsayer warned Julius Caesar back those thousands of years ago. That was in 44 BC.  It is most familiar to us because in his play Shakespeare used the phrase. That was only 500 or so years ago. The closest we come to that […]

Happy leap month! The normal thing is to call it leap year but February is the month that the leap takes place, so it is the leap month.  Fortunately it is also the month that we and most of the world celebrate Valentine’s Day.  I hope you had a wonderful leap of romance in your […]

The year is new. The frantic holiday season and, in fact, the entire past year is now in the past. The year just ended is now only a memory. For some of us the memories might be happy ones, others sad. It seems that the media, both digital and print, always want to hold reflections […]

Here we are again. The earth rotates around the sun in a slight ellipse. This means it comes back to the same place every rotation. The good thing is that so far, at least, it hasn’t stopped. Now for the technically minded that path is also on a slant called the ecliptic, which among other […]