Can you say “Cold War?”Probably not, unless you are at least a baby boomer. By the time the majority of today’s internet users came along, the Soviet Union and the omnipresent threat of world destruction had slipped to the back pages of the daily news. For one who lived it, fading from memory was [...]

Ever give someone something and have them abuse it or ignore it or even worse not say thank you? I have experienced all of those. Fortunately, the first has not been a frequent event. The middle one seems to be a sore point with us.
We make soap and candles for Christmas for [...]

The History Channel had a documentary on Hippies. For some reason the culture still glorifies one of the saddest periods in our history. The destruction of the cultural system that made this country great. The 50’s may have been the greatest period in the history of the U.S.A. From a cultural [...]