Welcome Spring with Flowers
Hello Darlings, spring is blazing with beautiful flowers of every scent and color. There is no better way to welcome the fresh new season than to gather the tall branches of forsythia and arrange the sunshine yellow flowers in a high cylindrical vase. The longer the branches, the better for a dramatic arrangement- especially in […]
All Over The Board
Pardon me if I ramble a bit, but I have a few things to get off my chest, and they may not be completely related. If you promise to bear with me during this mental popcorn excursion, I promise to at least attempt to pull these fairly unrelated items together into a neat package that […]
What Happened To My Tulips?
Tulips are my favorite flower and I used to have good luck with them. They are planted in my front yard and I wait for them to bloom every year. Last year, I had lots of foliage and very few blooms and it looks like it may be the same way this year. Do you […]
Robert Kirkman‘s The Walking Dead: Book One
Most people who know me know I am a huge fan of The Walking Dead. Well, to be clear, I was a huge fan of the show. I just received a hardback edition of The Walking Dead: Book One, which is a volume containing quite a few issues of the comics, all presented on slick, […]
Spring Breaks Past
This week I have been thinking of Spring breaks past and longing for a return to warm weather (which I understand is coming later this week). When I was young, kids just didn’t take off on trips for Spring Break. Oh, sure, some lucky college students might take a quick trip to the beach on […]
Is Your Child A Picky Eater?
Is your child a picky eater? Does your child refuse to eat anything other than chicken nuggets? Would your toddler rather play than eat anything at all? The staff at Mayo Clinic advises you not to prepare a separate meal when he/she refuses to eat the meal on the table, and not to excuse him/her […]
Stranger Than Fiction: A Sign of Things to Come
It seemed like a harmless college frat boy prank at first. Three Duke University Law School students who were all near the top of their class, wanted to find out what their final exam grades were. The three young men put together a clandestine plan to break into the dean’s office and take a look […]
Stranger Than Fiction: The Robbery of Lincoln’s Tomb
While several attempts had been made to steal President Abraham Lincoln’s corpse, none were ever successful. The closest anyone ever came to stealing Lincoln’s corpse was in 1876 when a band of outlaws attempted to steal the body and hold it for ransom and to secure the release of a counterfeiter, Ben Boyd. Boyd was […]
A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Spring is such a perfect time to wear the most beautiful hats. The favorite fashion for Easter, is the crowing glory of a beautiful hat… from times past known as the “Easter Bonnet, with all the frills upon it.” Well darlings, the Crazy Mad Hatter’s of Dallas, Texas, goes way beyond just frills! The Crazy […]
Sports Memorabilia
Athletes are superstars in this country. We pay the best of the best hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and spend millions of dollars on merchandise each year. Vintage sports memorabilia is also popular in this country. Each year our shop fields at least a dozen calls about selling baseball cards. Typically we refer […]
Virtue
Simply put, virtue is moral excellence. Those characteristics that one holds most dear, perhaps in an idealized form or an unattainable goal, are virtues. They are moral targets for which we aim. And they’ve been cataloged since at least the days of Plato! Prudence, Justice, Temperance (or “restraint”) and Fortitude are the classical, or Cardinal, […]
Children’s Easter Pets
Every Easter, children want baby rabbits or baby chicks. Yes or no? Before you hop down the rabbit trail, or purchase a baby chick, there are a few things you should know. Two rabbits are cute, but ten rabbits are a nightmare. So, buy just one, or only rabbits of one sex. If you want […]
Egg Hunting
What’s Easter without an egg hunt? When I was young, my church had an Easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter. We boiled and colored dozens of eggs the night before. The next day, we went to the church to hide the eggs. We sat on the floor so we couldn’t peak out the windows, […]
Billy Bob For Pope
The recent election of the Pope got me thinking. What if papal elections were like southern politics? There would be signs in every yard: “Billy Bob for Pope.” Now, of course Billy Bob would have to select a papal name if he won the election. He’d select something appropriate to his roots, perhaps Pope Elvis. […]
Easter Egg Safety
My children are anxiously awaiting coloring Easter eggs. We will go on an egg hunt on Saturday and another on Sunday. The kids are always wanting to eat the eggs that they dye and I was wondering if it is safe for them to eat the eggs after the hunts? According to the USDA, eggs […]
Stephenie Meyer’s: The Host
With the film adaptation being released this Friday, I figured it was time to review Stephenie Meyer’s The Host. The Host is a teen sci-fi/romance novel that is often compared to Meyer’s other famous/infamous (depending on who you ask) series, Twilight. There are certainly some similarities. The story revolves around the fate of a young […]
