Order from Chaos

I am leaving tonight for Chautauqua , New York for the Spring 2008 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference ( MARAC ). This conference wi...

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I'm off on Wednesday to head to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) meeting in Chautauqua, New York. Upon arriving in...

Tonight, I went out to Nationals Park for the first time since Opening Night (and again I went with OSG). This was the first outing on t...

My father makes models (this is but one link), although he has not really done any modeling since moving to the new house . I had warned h...

I will not speak of last night other than to say, I am saddened by what I saw. Do not count out that team, they will be back and hoisting t...

Today is Primary Day in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is appropriate that we have arrived at the 15th President on this particular d...

Just last week, the now biennial Pillsbury Bake-Off took place, The contest used to take place every year but they went to an every other y...

[I expect that Restaurant Gal may have something to say about this.] Just last night I was talking with Mrs. Brave Astronaut (because its al...

In 1923, The first game was played at Yankee Stadium, New York; the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 4-1. This is noteworthy on many levels. I am,...

In a previous career, I was a history teacher, so it should not surprise people when the history facts show up here with some regularity. E...

Unaware that we have had two presidents with the first name of Franklin? Well, Franklin Pierce is also our only president from New Hampshi...

Here's a second in the presidential recipe series. Are you surprised it's not "Chicken in [every] pot?" 1/2 cup butter 3 ...

My wife went back to work two weeks ago at her job at an archives which maintains the papers of many artists and works closely with several ...

Because I can't help myself. I can't stay away from all you fine people. As Mrs. Brave Astronaut would say, "I am my own wors...

I currently have 48 blog posts in draft form. Granted that most of them (more than half) are future presidential posts. I even have a fair...

What? We had a President named Millard? And he was Vice President for a guy named Zachary? Who were these people? Millard Fillmore was b...

Well not me. I'm a big fan. So I was very excited to see this post on the Amateur Gourmet back in February. He took the recipe from the...

Here are the answers to Stinkypaw's quiz . The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the lead...

Forty years ago on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, the Reverend Martin Luther King was gunned down by James Earl Ra...