Survival tip
You're lost in the woods. You are cold. You have no matches to start a fire. All you have are a can of Coke and some chocolate. How do you get warm? Here's the answer.
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You're lost in the woods. You are cold. You have no matches to start a fire. All you have are a can of Coke and some chocolate. How do you get warm? Here's the answer.
I collect quotes. They come from many places. Many of them come from the quote of the day page of The Quotations Page--it's my browser's home page. Here is a sampling of quotations that I've especially enjoyed over the past two months: Last night I stayed up late playing poker with…
It's that time of year again, when we gear up for the rewards (or disappointments) promised in our celebrations of the Yule Season. Christmas Time! Days of saccharine movies, maudlin songs, a hope for fluffy white snowfall that is somehow miraculously easy to drive through and falls only on grassy…
I received the following from a friend of mine, who sent it to his local paper as well. I’ve asked his permission to post it here, in its entirety. It concerns an issue which, while we may hope represents an unfortunate part of our history long outgrown, still rears its…
Three weeks ago, I took a 50-mile bike ride through Illinois, heading toward Pere Marquette State Park. I kept thinking about the blog, however . . .