There will be fireworks beside the pier in Old Orchard Beach tonight. Despite the police chief’s objections. The Thursday night fireworks have been at 9:45 for decades. I seem to remember them being at 9:30 when I was younger, but my memory for such things isn’t guaranteed. Earlier this summer they were moved to 9. […]
What’s in a name, Shakespeare asked. I’m pondering that in advance of a concert in Ottawa tonight. It was the names that attracted me. Three seventies powerhouses, two with sixties roots. Jefferson Starship, Kansas and Deep Purple are sharing the stage. I have seen these bands before. But not there versions. There is one original […]
Some people sleep in when they are on vacation. Not me. I have always been an early riser. That made m a natural for morning radio – I was awake already at the early hour required. it has been 20 years since I did morning radio, but I am still awake before five most mornings. […]
No not that moon. This one. Walking along Old Orchard Beach at dawn earlier this month, I noted a number of snails and snail shells. I suppose that is not unusual, but it seemed to me to be more of the one type than I remember from previous visits. Looking it up, i discovered that […]
It has been a log hot summer. People have been complaining about the heat and humidity. I’m one of them. It won’t last though. In the near future we will be complaining instead about the cold and snow. In the dog days of summer we forget how much we hate winter. When the snow is […]
Do they do any good? The rallies, the protests, the signs? Driving through North Conway, New Hampshire, I noted a demonstration against ICE (that’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), probably a protest over the recent shooting of an immigrant. Not the first time ICE has killed someone who had committed no crime. i thought about […]
Or artificial intelligence. Or smart phones. Some of us are even old enough to remember when there were no calculators. We used slide rules. Each generation has a different approach to education. Sometimes the differences are slight, while at other times there is a seismic shift in how information is imparted. Is one way better […]
I have three posts I was considering for today. This isn’t one of them. I’m on vacation. Most of this week’s posts were completed last week. The weather has been great and I have been spending 12 hours or more daily on the beach. Finishing a blog post requires motivation. Motivation requires rain. Even for […]
There are always exceptions. That’s what makes English so fun. Or should that be frustrating?
Given the state of the economy, this might not be an unusual sentiment. mind you, today’s seniors don’t have living parents to move in with. I remembered of this cartoon last week when reading the obituaries in my local newspaper. As is customary, it was mentioned that one woman had been predeceased by her parents, […]
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