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Did you know the first ambulance services were provided by funeral homes?

Posted on December 13, 2022

Living (and loving) Life

Most everyone is familiar with the distinctive look of the typical modern ambulance, but there was a time when ambulances looked much different.

Prior to the Civil War virtually all ambulance services existed to transport wounded soldiers from the battlefield to the nearest hospital or clinic.

Their extensive use during the Civil War made folks aware of just how beneficial ambulances could be to the general public.

When the first civilian ambulance services were created, guess who it was that stepped in to create most of them?

Funeral homes! And there’s a simple reason for that…

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Video: Watch this ‘Boogie Woogie Queen’ rock a public piano

Posted on November 30, 2022

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Regular readers of this newsletter know I always feature a video at the end of every post I publish.

Some of those videos are inspirational and some are (hopefully) educational.

But every now and then I love posting one just because it’s fun to watch.

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Why athletic shoes are often referred to as ‘sneakers’

Posted on October 13, 2022

Living (and loving) Life

These days it seems like there’s an athletic shoe made for virtually every kind of physical activity.

For example, we have “tennis shoes”. We have “runners”. We have “walkers”. And we even have “dancers”.

Well, for many years we’ve also had “sneakers”!

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Would you enjoy ‘hanging out’ in one of these hammocks?

Posted on August 12, 2022

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Looking for a nice relaxing way to spend your summer vacation?

Well, you can do what these folks are doing and enjoy a few days (and nights) “hanging out” in a nice, comfy hammock.

The thing is, these hammocks aren’t suspended between two trees. They’re actually suspended between two extremely high cliffs!  [Read more…]

Guess what? The ‘twinkling’ stars you see in the night sky aren’t really twinkling at all.

Posted on July 15, 2022

Living (and loving) Life

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to view the night sky out in country where there’s no light pollution you probably noticed how the stars seemed to be twinkling.

The thousands of twinkling stars that shine down from the heavens have been fascinating and mesmerizing us humans all throughout our long history.

But there’s a strange truth about those twinkling stars: They don’t really twinkle at all.

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