In 1976, I was so excited to learn the metric system in fourth grade. My teacher said everyone would need to know it soon. She was serious. We need to be ready. I took one-gram, green, plastic weights and put them on a balancing scale with one-ounce, orange, plastic weights on the other side to... Continue Reading →
A ’70s Achievement?
Do you ever wonder why you keep certain things? Items that have no practical use and no sentimental value that you can recall. You don’t associate them with warm memories of a lost love or long-gone relatives. They don’t remind you of better days. I was staring at a few soccer patches from a town... Continue Reading →