I grew up in the State of Maine where it snowed nearly every day of the Winter months. It didn’t always collect, but it just snowed . . . !   It was cold seven months of the year, and ‘freezing…

I’ve traveled to many a-far country.  I grew up in Maine on the Canadian border – and while that was not ‘far’ (to get to Canada), there have been several travels that took me a good distance from home.  Between…

It seems as if I could write a thousand stories of wonderful Christmas experiences from just my personal life alone.  But for this year, I have chosen just the following one. For more than three and a half years, I…

I don’t know if you ever watched the early 2000’s TV show, ‘Monk’ starring Tony Shalboub, but I enjoyed the show from time to time.  Shaloub’s character was Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective.  Monk suffered from an…

Before cigarette commercials were banned on American television in 1971, I remember a really attractive cigarette commercial targeting women.  Their slogan was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’  The commercial was well done and if you were a woman and…