What Do I Know?

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

I found the following passage intriguing.  And since it is bad form to copy whole passages of other books without adding value or a new cont...

We're back in Anchorage.  As we went to the airport in the late afternoon Friday, there seemed to be a lot less smoke blowing from the P...

  If you walk the path along Venice Beach, you'll come across the skateboard park.   Skateboards first appeared along the beaches of Sou...

That's the question raised in a book I picked up at the Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle during Thanksgiving. I've just started read...

Two more days of festival.  Well only one more for us.  Not that long ago, the Festival website said the festival was Dec. 6-14 and we made ...

This is one of those historic moments when the world will pull back from the bring of disaster or go crashing into a new world of callous de...

We went to the Three Barons Renaissance Faire Sunday at Russian Jack.  For us Russian Jack is the southern section with the Chalet, golf, an...

Thıs ıs a long post in which I try to link different ideas together.  Since I'm not posting every day nowadays, you can come back and fi...