Life is short - begin every day with a smile!
I’ve done a lot of traveling in my time on planet Earth, and I’ve either driven or ridden on some roads that I hope I never have to travel down again.
If you’re the adventurous type you might want to give the Himalayan mountain road featured in this video a try.
A while back I shared this video featuring the Austrian duo Sensitive Souls singing the Carter Family classic “Wildwood Flower”.
That performance really resonated with lots of folks, and it’s easy to understand why.
Janine and Andi have amazing voices and they did an outstanding job on one of the most beautiful songs ever written, especially considering the fact that English isn’t their native language. [Read more…]
Living (and loving) Life
I’ve spent my entire life thinking I knew what a berry was, but it turns out I was wrong.
Apparently lots of things that I thought were berries really aren’t, and lots of things that I thought weren’t berries are!
According to the folks at LiveScience and Wikipedia, a fruit must have the following characteristics in order to be classified as a berry: [Read more…]
Living (and loving) Life
Immigrants from all over the world arrive in the United States every single day.
And as you might guess, that naturally means you’ll find at least a few people here that speak virtually every “living” language in the world.
However, the vast majority of people living in the U.S. only speak one language (English) with just a relative few speaking all the other languages.
But guess what? There’s a tiny Pacific island country whose citizens speak a whopping 840 languages!
Living (and loving) Life
If you’re a student of American History you’re well aware of how Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson helped create our wonderful nation and set it on the path to freedom.
After helping form the new country known as the United States of America, Adams and Jefferson both went on to serve as its president.
The influences these great men had on American life and traditions are still evident today.
Both Adams and Jefferson lived long and consequential lives, but the date of their deaths is quite intriguing in its own right…