…By Any Other Name…

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
 By any other name would smell as sweet."

 ~ Juliet

 (From Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Scene 2)

"Average!?"

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

~ Inigo Montoya

(From The Princess Bride)

Greetings From Frost Lake!

Second Verse – Same As The First

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

 ~ Albert Einstein

(Attributed)

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Happy New Year From Frost Lake!

Winter Wonderland

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

The Bergquists At Christmas

There are a few things that are more-or-less given at the holiday season. One is that you will get socks and underwear from your grandparents (if you are lucky enough to still have them around to give you gifts), another is that someone is bound to wax nostalgic for the movie A Christmas Story, and one is that every theater guild in the world, and television station will insist on totting out the Dickens in one or more of its incarnations. To that short, but inevitable, list I wish to add the perennial return of The Bergquist Christmas Eve Story. Perhaps one day this will be as loved/reviled (take your pick) as any other holiday classic. 

I have told this story to friends and family for years and even posted it on my blog a few times. Every year, someone asks me to tell the story again, and every year I get emails asking if I am going to post the story again to my blog. The answer to both questions is "yes." So, here it is. 

Greetings From Frost Lake!

Ten Years...

My first blog post from Thames Ditton, UK

My, how time flies!

Huh!? How's That?

There is a phrase I keep hearing in the media and reading in the news and for the life of me, I cannot parse what they are saying. The words alone are pretty clear but the meaning of the phrase is completely beyond me. The phrase I keep hearing is “Throw the bums out.”

The Gunpowder Plot

"Remember, remember; the 5th of November; Gunpowder Treason and Plot; I see no reason
why Gunpowder, Treason;
ever should be forgot."

~ Traditional Rhyme

Head Shaking

During the 2010 State Of The Union Address (January 27, 2014) Supreme Court Justice, Sam Alito, shook his head when the President claimed in his speech that their recent “Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission” decision had opened “the floodgates for special interests –- including foreign corporations –- to spend without limit in our elections.” Besides being unspeakably rude it has also proven to be almost wholly untrue.

Greetings From Frost Lake!