恭喜发财   (gōngxǐ fācái) Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Dragon . In Mandarin it is " Gong Xi Fa Cai "   (pronou...

Last year at this time I decided to try a new type of New Year's resolution and allow myself to choose only one word to concentrate on i...

A few days before Christmas my wife Gina and her sister Cheli (Araceli) went shopping for the ingredients to make the traditional Christmas ...

When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, the bathroom was where I learned to write because the bathroom is where my father kept his latest co...

The colors that most people readily associate with Christmas are red and green. For a certain percentage of the population these days (inclu...

The other day my wife Gina went to visit a relative who has recently given birth to a baby girl and when she returned from the visit Gina ex...

When I was a kid the pilgrims and the good ship Mayflower and the turkey were all symbols of Thanksgiving but I remember that the main symbo...

There is an old philosophical story named after John Buridan who was a French priest and philosopher in the 14th century that somewhat descr...

Here in Mexico many people still pronounce the word "Google" like they would if it was a Spanish word and it sounds something like...

In the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke” there is an unforgettable line that was used twice, once by the prison captain (played by Strother Martin...