What did the great men and women of the past have in common with each other that many of us lack? There are all sorts of possible answers, but the one of some significance here is that most of them spent at least part of their lives, part of their time, doing physical labor. Too …
From my Latino days. Not really, but this photo is one of the more unique ones anyone ever took of me. It was almost exactly half a lifetime ago, taken in December 1985, just after I had turned 36. It was the year of my first really successful diet. Starting at the beginning of May, …
I was reading something about Charles Lindbergh when I saw something that really shocked me. No, it didn’t have anything to do with hs flight or the controversies surrounding his later life. It was two facts that were only shocking in conjunction with each other. Lindbergh was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed just …
