Even With A New Look, It’s Never Any Good Trying To Be Someone Other Than...
“I hate dyed hair. The color God has given to you is always the best and matches with your personality. It is never any good trying to be someone other than yourself.” “Your way to be exclusive is to...
View ArticleHave You Seen The Newest Girl With Her Hair All In A Whirl?
“Have you seen the newest girl with her hair all in a whirl?,” asked Harry B. Smith in his lyrics for “The Nell Brinkley Girl,” a song from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. This sweet curly-haired girl...
View ArticleWhy Green Tigers Turned Out In Honor Of St. Patrick
Study the cartoon Jimmy Swinnerton created for the March 18, 1898 edition of the New York Journal and you’ll find some interesting Irish-American trivia to share on St. Patrick’s Day. Swinnerton’s...
View ArticleA Flying Writing On How The Crude Woodsman Spread His Words
Follow the Golden Rule. Love your neighbor. Show more empathy. Secure more funding for the humanities. Listen to more opera. These are some of the answers people gave when asked what change they would...
View ArticleMarshall Fredericks Was Here In Columbus!
Two Bears. Baboon with Chimpanzee. Baboon with Sleeping Child. All sculptures by a Michigan sculptor named Marshall Fredericks, on view at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand...
View Article“Happiness is being a Buckeye.”
That’s what many are saying this year, as The Ohio State University celebrates its 150th anniversary. In this Buckeye’s case, though, happiness was seeing my relative’s dress on display as part of...
View Article“It stands for simplicity.”
With a surprise ring of the doorbell, a routine Friday evening watching The Carol Burnett Show turned into a welcome special event. During that conversation by candlelight, I rediscovered another...
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