I don’t mean to brag, but my town’s fire department has an exceptional logo:  Two axes, a ladder, and what appears to be a snake climbing a stripper pole (see photo below). It’s so wonderful in fact, that I have decided to give all my fire safety-related business to them. That’s correct.  In the unfortunate event of a fire in my home – any time of day, any day of the year – I will seek help from the Upton, Massachusetts […] Click to read more…

(Listen to this post, here.) I like to think of myself as open minded. So when my wife, Linda, suggested we purchase some “garden art” and become the sort of people who display this sort of thing, I said OK. Sure enough, just a few days later, we had installed a bronze flowery thing in our back garden (see photo). But it’s not just a flowery thing – it’s a spinning flowery thing that speeds up, slows down and rotates […] Click to read more…