KEN GOODRICH: The best home service companies do background checks and drug tests on prospective employees, but at Goettl Air Conditioning and The Sunny Plumber, we take those evaluations even further, because we want you to LIKE the people who come to your home. I mean really LIKE them. This is going to sound crazy, I know, […]

In the final minutes of his life, Calvin has one last talk with Hobbes. “Calvin? Calvin, sweetheart?” In the darkness Calvin heard the sound of Susie, his wife of fifty-three years. Calvin struggled to open his eyes. God, he was so tired and it took so much strength. Slowly, light replaced the darkness, and soon […]

How to Spot a Diamond Bargain Here’s Everything You Need to Know Surprise #1: Price –The price of a diamond is based on its rarity, not its beauty. Surprise #2: Color – Colorless diamonds are more rare than lightly colored diamonds, so colorless diamonds are more expensive than lightly colored ones. BUT… highly colored diamonds […]

Here’s the link to the original 7-16-2010 column by Joe Carter

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*Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 but the ceremony where this speech was delivered was in 1950. (Bold is mine) – Mia Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of […]



If that shirt is any indication, the wizard is neither humble nor a genius. – Indy (Gosh, I hope he doesn’t read this.)



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  Steam curls from the freshest of pasta. Giggling children sit around the roughly hewn dinner table enjoying simple blessings. A warm, fragrant meal and a loving, happy family. Its fun to wonder what is on the other side of the door. Found on the romantic streets of Malta. 🇲🇹 Say Hi to the wizard […]

JFK’s Dog

JFK’s Dad

One Minute to Live

John Edward Maguire was radioman, one of the 13 crew members of torpedo boat PT-109, skippered by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in WWII, when it was sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in August 1943. The 11 survivors clung to PT-109’s bow section as it drifted slowly south. By 2 p.m., it was apparent that the hull was […]

Composition is a way of guiding the viewer’s eye towards the most important elements in a photograph, sometimes in a very specific order. Good composition uses the arrangement of shapes, patterns, colors, and other elements to make ordinary items in common environments delightful, surprising, and interesting.

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The moon appears immense here because it’s being photographed through a telescopic lens. What is moving is the Earth, whose spin causes the Moon to slowly disappear behind Mount Teide, a volcano in the Canary Islands. The people you see on the volcano are 16 kilometers away and are facing the camera because they are watching the Sun rise behind the photographer.

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Tim, I share your concerns. The eldest of my grandchildren, Hollister, will be 12 in August. The dates you referenced, of course, were exactly where we are now – 5 years before the zenith of a “WE” cycle. 1778: the War against England. 1858: four years prior to the beginning of the Civil War in […]

Customer Support Specialist Dealing with bad customer service is like pro-wrestling a porcupine…it’s prickly, it’s awkward, and completely avoidable if you don’t climb into the ring in the first place! But you already know this. Because you’re really good with people, and it’s bewildering for you to see a company with poor customer service. I […]

WARNING: This video is such a delight, that if you watch the first minute, you won’t be able to quit. So don’t get started if you have somewhere you have to go or something you have to do. It was posted online just 10 days ago. There’s a reason why it’s been getting 100,000 views […]

“Tell me more about this Magic Dozen.”

BODIES Men are pre-occupied with women’s bodies … but then again … so are women. (Especially their own. UNDERDOGS The more vulnerable you are … the fiercer you have to fight. The underdogs fight harder to keep what little they have. The more desperate your circumstances the more you must rely on camouflage and deception … only the […]



The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel There’s a reason the New York Times named it One of the 10 Best Books of 2006. It’s Hempel’s voice: Pretty, in that way that only a woman’s voice can be. Clear-eyed, without affectation of any kind. Deeply insightful. Compassionate. A little sad. If Emily Dickinson had been born 121 […]

 

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.” – Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus carpe noctem: […]

Take a look at Johnny’s book on Amazon.com

Jeremy, Ian, Brad.  It’s a long story.





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Tuscan Court is the private, walled garden outside Tuscan Hall, the large-group meeting space on the campus of Wizard Academy.

The Spence Diamond Pavilion gives happy couples a place to have a fabulous, free wedding reception.

“Once I was lucky enough to take a class with the great clown teacher Giovanni Fusetti and one of the things that he talked about was the ancient idea of a hero. In the Greek myths, humans were subject to massive and unknown forces outside of their control. The whims of the gods – fickle […]

“I’ve long been fascinated by the common human illusion that ideas can be sorted into good and bad, when all experience shows this not to be the case. We could play the game all day long where I describe a simply terrible idea and then tell you about the people who got rich implementing it […]