It is Friday, the day before the weekend. Many people are anticipating kicking back and enjoying some downtime. I got to wondering who coined this phrase that lots of us say with a big sigh of relief on this day of the week. Here’s what I found. An Akron, Ohio disc jockey, Jerry Healey, who worked at station WAKR in the late 60s and 70s, very likely came up with this favorite sentiment for a Friday. He also brought American standards music to over 200 markets in a syndicated

Happy National Rubber Ducky Day—January 13, 2020. Who can’t crack a smile when you spy a bright one of those yellow, orange-billed, floating ducks? I thought it’d be fun to take a look at the history of these cutie pies. Did you know when they came on the scene in the late 1880s they couldn’t float? Manufacturers were taking advantage of the vulcanizing process that Charles Goodyear developed and cast those ducks in hard rubber. They weren’t for bath time back then. They were

We’re only a couple of weeks into the New Year and a new decade, and so much bad has happened and continues to happen in the world. It’s distressing, disappointing, and so sad. Just to get away from it for a little while, I want to turn our eyes skyward to enjoy and marvel over the beauty that’s right overhead at night. Despite everything, our Earth, our address in the Milky Way Galaxy, gives us a great vantage point to see wondrous things. Let’s start with our natural satell