When I was a kid in school, a staple of my education was being assigned books to read and then having to write a book report on them. Most of the time my book reports were pretty forgettable, though I recall the one I wrote in high school on Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities”. The book…
I don’t often think about mailboxes. But sometimes, mailboxes make me think about them. Like when my old one has reached such a point of sorrowfulness that it is time for a new one.
I finished off 2023 with a small lament about the need to do some clutter reduction at home. Now 2024 is underway, and so it is time to begin that project in earnest. It seems that home-organization is a universally-held goal at the beginning of a new year, because every major retailer is hawking “storage solutions”. Bins, shelves…
A habit has developed here, in which we highlight a classic holiday album as we approach that most wonderful time of year. One such album that has become a staple at the JP household is from the 1965 CBS Television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. It may be unique among Christmas music collections in the…
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