Fruitful Detours
Bang! Zap! Pow! When I was a kid, I wanted to be a superhero. I guess that’s pretty typical — kids have no power to speak of, and superheroes have all kinds of power. I would tie a sheet on my neck and pretend to fly around our backyard. I made my brothers be the […]
The games don’t count. Players are pulled in and out of games faster than a hot potato from an oven. But it’s sunny and it’s baseball. I recently went to my first Spring Training game in Lakeland, Florida. The Detroit Tigers were playing the Philadelphia Phillies. I have heard about the Tigers’ training camp since […]
There are lots of activities that I can’t quite imagine ever doing. One of those is riding a bull. Bulls have got to be one of the scariest animals around. Big. Mean. Pointy horns. And hardly any brains. I was in Denver recently, and I went to the National Western Stock Show to watch the […]
Merry Christmas! For the children among us (or for those of us who never grew up) Christmas is a holiday that is focused on toys. As adults, we want those toys to have two functions: make our kids happy, and teach them things. Toys have become increasingly sophisticated, such that now some toys incorporate as […]
No, not another post about the coronavirus. This is about the Bug. Herbie. The Beetle. V-Dub. The Volkswagen Beetle. It’s hard to miss the classic shape of this car. Volkswagen was founded by the German government in 1937 to mass-produce a low-priced “people’s car.” Their headquarters are in Wolfsburg, Germany. Since World War II, the company has […]