I noticed a strange thing recently – if you ask someone the time, they whip out their cell phone and tell you. No one wears watches any more. What is going to happen to the industry that makes watches? I know that they exist. I see watches for sale in stores, but if you look [...]

Angel Island 1910 The immigration station at Angel Island opened its doors in January 1910. It is estimated that more than 1 million persons coming to and leaving the U.S. were processed through Angel Island, including 175,000 Chinese and 150,000 Japanese immigrants, with some being held there for weeks or even months in horrible conditions. [...]

Kay’s site Proofing Point has many inspirational messages as well as great writing tips. Humans are born with the ability to dream and hope for something better. It is what we do afterwards that makes all the difference. A dream without action is just fantasy. The action is the means to achieve those hopes and [...]

(The following is a guest article by Kay Hedges who lives in Arizona. Kay’s busness is commercial proof reading in the Phoenix area. She maintains the website Proofing Point.) Writing, proofreading, audience, purpose, evidence There are several ways to improve the writing quality of any document paper before its submission. These have to do with [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Italy, Venice in particular? This book will give you a taste of that experience. You see, in Italy, each area has its own unique little quirks, which is what makes that country one of the most wonderful to visit. John Berendt takes you [...]

One of the most amazing, and mysterious, stories of the 20th century. Though legend has it that the foil referred to as “tin” foil was later replaced by “aluminum” foil, this is not based in fact. We need to go back to 1947, to a little town called Roswell to get at the truth. Most [...]

This is a common question. Despite our best efforts, little is known about the nature of coffee grounds.

This was, if not mistaken, on the New York Best Seller list several years ago written by Madeline Hunter. I start off with that as when you read the review, you might wonder how in the world that the book got there. It isn’t a bad book at all. This is a book that I [...]

This is a book where your emotions will take a change towards the characters depending upon where you are in the book. Not that I have found this written anywhere, I wondered about the title when I got the book. After reading it I came to the view that the title comes from the father/doctor [...]

This is an article I wrote by request for a site of advice for anyone just getting into and wanting to write. Steve Berry writes a book that is one that is hard to put down. Face paced and spins a story with historical fact along with fiction. It opens with the history of the [...]