Recently I saw a spot on the Weather Channel that said we are entering the “Dog Days of Summer”. Hmmm. This summer has been so hot that I do not know when these specific days started. And in fact, where did this saying originate? And what are some things we can do make these hot [...]

It seems like just the other day that I started blogging on GG (as I affectionately call it). I went back over the blog to see what I have been writing about and what kind of comments I have gotten. Over the past three years I have thrown out just about anything that crossed my [...]

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from [...]

And we think we are “hot shots” with cellphones and Ipad! Ha!
On this day in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House s first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room. President Hayes embraced the new technology, though he rarely received phone calls. In fact, the Treasury Department possessed the only other [...]

The other day I got an overwhelming feeling of homesickness. My husband said to me, “do you need to go visit the kids”? In truth it was not about a place or people in my life that was making me homesick. I have moved so much in my life I have never been in [...]

Us baby boomers have a lot on our minds these days. And exercise is moving out there to the forefront, right? We know that as we age it is becomes difficult to find time to exercise but London found an interesting way to help aging boomers. A park with low impact equipment designed for improvement [...]