Monthly Archives: November 2017
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 12
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 12 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Another one bites the dust. This time it was San Francisco unable to handle the spotlight’s glare, winning their first game of the season, leaving Cleveland, not for the … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – King David
As one thinketh in is heart, so is he. – King David King David is historically represented as the second king of Israel and Judah. For centuries there was little evidence outside the Bible that David existed, though the 1990’s … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 15, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… WHEN IT’S TIME TO WRITE, IT’S TIME TO WRITE: As noted here before, usually we have an idea for a column before we sit down to write. Today we didn’t, so we dove in … Continue reading
The Bottom Ten – NCAA Week 12
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 12 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy It was steady as she goes in the Bottom Ten this week as the race for the ESPN Cup saw the top five teams in last week’s survey all … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Nicholas Monsarrat
The man who finds the smell is the one who sniffs. – Nicholas Monsarrat, Smith and Jones Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-79) was a British naval officer and writer. Though a pacifist, he served Britain honorably in the Navy, attaining the rank … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 14, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… CAPSULE BOOK REVIEW: Peter the Great: His Life and Times By Robert K. Massie: For most of the biographies we’ve read over the years we had at least a passing acquaintance with the subject. Not … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Benjamin Franklin
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, if he first forms a good plan, and makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 13, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME: Arguing about who should and should not be in baseball’s Hall of Fame used to be great fun, and there was a time when the ten people being … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-92), was an English poet. He replaced William Wordsworth as poet laureate of England – though he wasn’t the first choice … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 12, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… ELECTION DAY…VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: We live in a small town. It has a pretty good diner, a bar, a small grocery store and no stop lights. Usual small town stuff. And we also … Continue reading