A fascinating thing about history is how one thing leads to another. History is a flow that the beginning does not necessarily know where the end will be. And such is what happened in San Antonio Jan. 9, 1840. This was the start of what is known as “The Council Fight” which was a series […]

Ah, the month of June; it is named after the Roman Goddess Juno. She was in charge of marriages back then. I am not sure who is now. They seem to be quite different. However, June is still the month of marriages. June also has at least one other distinction, besides birthdays of those of […]

We have had many days of overcast and of fog this colder winter. Yet we got hardly any rain in the past month. It may be a harbinger of dry times which might mean poor crops and grass fires galore. However, the Sun shines more often of late. The good weather has brought the Pelicans […]

Given the way the news always talks about the bad things happening in our world, we really are getting better in some areas.. It might take a little historical joggling of our memories but we do have evidence of progress in certain knowledge. Most of us remember the stories about Galileo. He was a famous […]

It is this time of year that sometimes we tend to fool ourselves about things. We use all sorts of gimmicks let us say we have done one thing when we have done something entirely different. If you ask anyone how many hours there are in a day they will answer twenty-four. Those 24 hours […]