‘Derringer’ was probably the perfect stage name when nine year old Rick began playing Country & Western tunes in the bars around Fort Recovery, Ohio with his uncle Jim.  It w…

AstroCal – February 2025        February 1 finds us 41 days away from the shortest daylight / longest night we experience on the December 21 Winter Solstice.  Temperatures and weather…

       There are plenty of rock stars out there who climb to the top of their profession by being outrageous, bombastic, colorful, and sometimes, just plain weird.  Sure, there has to be en…

     Listening to the opening lines of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it struck me that it has been fifty years since I began my semester long stint student teaching.  Okay…

       The Van Halen brothers were really into George Orwell when they were working on the album listed in the title above.  Don’t recognize it?  They originally wanted to call it Animal…

       Both Chinese and Greek philosophers are given credit for the origins of the old saying, “The wheels of justice turn slowly.”  Sun Tzu’s version is often quoted (“Wheels of ju…