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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 16, 2023

  Looking at History from Two Opposing Views

  These days, opposing views of history are a prominent feature of politics all over the world, but are especially so here in the United States. Sometimes the same event is understood in such different ways that it seems like two separate events. Take the Alamo, the place in Texas stormed in 1836 by the Mexican…
• 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…
• July 11, 2023

  HELLO WORLD

  I am posting again If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. TOPIC FOR THE WEEK Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist and Scientist Looking at History from Two Opposing Views Deep knowledge, every day.Like, comment and follow…