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• February 24, 2025

  Working Through Suicidal Thoughts

  It’s likely that a sizable fraction of people reading this have had suicidal thoughts. That doesn’t mean you are weird or have a mental problem. It means that at some point, things just no longer made sense. Resigning from life may seem to make sense.  ​It’s been a while since I was a young man. When I was, Iwas smart,…
• February 18, 2025

  HELLO WORLD We’re Back!We’re back! After more than a year of not posting anything on this site, we’re back. We (Greg and Barbara) have had a tough year, but we have gotten our lives together and our partnership goals include making the site lively and we hope, helpful.What we intend to do in the coming months is post at least one…
• February 8, 2025

  Animals That Spit at You

  ​There was a time when, in the American West at least, thatbars and saloons had what were called spittoons, containers on the floor for patrons to spit into. Chewing tobacco was widespread then, a century and more ago. People who chewed tobacco, mostly men, chewed and spit. The spittoons were preferable to a slimy brown floor. That…
• July 13, 2023

  Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist and Scientist

  Somehow or other, the history of remarkable women tends to be forgotten. The fact that there have always been smart and determined women who shook off their traditional roles and dared do something new is ignored. One such woman was Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1719). In her 72 years she was a wife and mother, a…
• June 23, 2023

  Seeing the Family Graveyard on Google Maps

  Half of my ancestry is from a very rural county in the Appalachian Mountains in western Virginia. They got to Virginia well before the Revolution, after landing in Philadelphia in the 1730s. They turnedleft at the Great Valley, which runs southeasterly from Pennsylvania through Virginia and on into Carolina and Tennessee. They were Germans who…
• June 22, 2023

  Hello World

  I am posting again For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Topics For Rest Of The Week Seeing the Family Graveyard on Google Maps Prohibitionist with a Hatchet: Carry Nation, Revised Deep knowledge, every day.Like, comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.Happy Reading.Thanks