Food, Food & Drink The Humble Beginnings of the Hot Dog Hot dogs are one of the most common and universal food items in America. Think of a sporting event, picnic, holiday Tony Moir Posted on July 30, 2021
Food Coconuts: They’re Not Just for Gilligan Anymore The coconut tree is one of the most useful trees in the world. Multiple cultures refer to it in some form as the “tree Tony Moir Posted on June 26, 2021
Culture Why We All Need to Thank the Blues When I was in college, I took a class called “Good vs. Evil, the Faustian Bargain in Music and Literature.” The class was Tony Moir Posted on June 18, 2021
Essays Getting Caught Reading – A Lifelong Pursuit I learned to read early. By early, I mean before I was four years old, I was able to read picture books and had started to Tony Moir Posted on May 26, 2021
Essays The Story of How Guam Got Its Shape Guam, the southernmost island of the Mariana Islands, looks as though large bites were taken from either side. It is wide at Tony Moir Posted on May 18, 2021
Food Homemade Soup? The Best Thing Ever! I worked in restaurants when I was in junior high and high school, but I also used to watch my grandmothers cook. I have Tony Moir Posted on February 4, 2021
Essays Always Root for the Underdog The reason there is an underdog, is that there is also a “top dog” –back in Victorian England, where many things Tony Moir Posted on December 18, 2020
Travel Aviation History Month: Remembering the First Flight At 10:35 AM, on December 17, 1903, two reserved and monomaniacal brothers were successful in lifting off the ground in their Tony Moir Posted on November 30, 2020
Humor National Absurdity Day – Be Free to Be Weird! This is the day where we celebrate absurdity. The definitions of absurdity can include many things good and bad, but I love Tony Moir Posted on November 20, 2020