December 4, 1927 Duke Ellington Opens at Cotton Club Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C. and moved to the Big Apple in his early twenties. Duke Ellington was an American jazz legend. Composer, jazz orchestra leader and pianist, his career spanned more than sixty years. But his big break Read more
November 9, 1904 First Flight to Soar 5 Minutes More than a century ago, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished the impossible! The first airplane to fly more than 5 minutes in duration! During the summer and winter of 1904, the Wright brothers attempted to fly over 100 times at a prairie east of Dayton, Read more
November 7, 1932 Buck Rogers was Born on Radio The first science fiction radio show was born on CBS Radio “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.” This 15-minute radio drama series was based on the popular comic book series Buck Rogers. It aired between 1932 and 1947 with a few years off in-between as it Read more
Reverse Aging? It’s Closer Than You Think! In 1985, Cocoon promised older adults the promise of youth. In 2019, Harvard scientist, George Church may bring that closer to reality than we may believe is possible. In his lab, Church and his colleagues have discovered some genes alpha-Klotho, FGF21 and sTGF2betaR that alone or in combination Read more
I had the absolute pleasure to meet Dawn Michelle Hardy @TheLiteraryLobbyist over the weekend at an @SCBWI event. If you are a first time author/publisher and want help to get your novel, memoire, etc. out there in the world, you should definitely consider hiring Dawn’s @DreamRelationsPR for help and guidance. Dawn Hardy started her career Read more
Although we all love Amazon, the seclusion of shopping online has many searching for similar deals in retail stores. And now, brick and mortar stores (Dick’s Sporting Goods, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Lowe’s, Nordstrom, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Staples and most likely more to follow) have agreed to match the online behometh. Moreover, Home Depot will Read more
October Checklist Ghosts, goblins and little trick-or-treaters will soon be knocking at your door. There’s still more to do for October: Flu season is beginning to flare. The CDC recommends most everyone get a flu vaccination. FluMist has been reformulated to boost effectiveness for those up to 49 years old. Get your shot when you’re Read more
Dorian arrived on August 28 as a Hurricane 5 storm as it hit the Virgin Islands. It then ever so slowly inched it’s way across the Atlantic stalling over the Bahamas where close to 100,000 people have been affected by her fury. Inching her way up the East Coast, Dorian whipped winds into the Carolinas Read more
September Checklist As the weather starts to get colder and the leaves start to turn orange, yellow and red; September brings us various things to think about. Plan for Emergencies. Learn or relearn first aid and CPR. Plan for a household disaster such as hurricane, tornado or fire. Install the USA emergency app FEMA.gov/mobile-app to Read more
Indie Author Day: Grow Your Creative Community By Angie Littlefield This year’s Indie Author Day will be held on Saturday, October 12. Because that day is also Canadian Thanksgiving, my local library in Pickering, Ontario, will host its event a week earlier, on Oct 5. Graphic designer, photographer, and webmistress Mary Cook and I are the Read more
