Another lengthy read but hopefully an interesting one.  Save it for Christmas holiday reading if time does not permit. O Holy Night has...

 

   Does anyone else hate listening to 12 Days of Christmas? If so then you will enjoy Frank Kelly's take on it in his "Christma...

  “What I do today is important, because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile, because the price is...

 

  (Click on the image to enlarge). The above ad reads: WHEN THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF, IT TOOK TWO HOURS TO EVACUATE NEW YORK'S WORLD T...

  The above pic is of a house around the corner from where I live.   The photo does not do it justice. Each year the elderly couple who li...

Click on the image to enlarge. Commonly called De Nachtwacht - The Night Watch, - the painting’s correct title is The Company of Frans B...

  Christmas in Oz takes place at the hottest and sunniest time of the year.   Nonetheless we send out cards with winter scenes, sing songs...

 

  It wouldn’t be Christmas without a reference to two funny clips: Ding! Fries are Done is a parody of the Christmas carol song  Carol ...

  “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." -                       Dorothea Lange Byter John ...

  The first mass produced Christmas card, 1843.   10 survive today of the 1,000 printed.   The card was hand coloured in that it predated ...

Last week I queried whether Christmas was dying out, both in observance of its religious significance and in its secular celebration, especi...

  “When you get the personality, you don’t need the nudity.” -        Mae West Mae West (1893-1980), one of the sexiest women who ever l...

Some pics. . . The pilot of this plane in the African Savannah came back from delivering supplies to the local hospital  to find that a pr...

  “Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfi...