Month: November 2017

We use this list and draw our next stop via Random.org.; here’s our itinerary.  The photo is from flickr.com    

David Cassidy, the actor, singer and teen heartthrob with the green eyes and the feathered haircut was the magical success of “The Partridge Family,” the 1970s television show about a family band. The band’s songs, sung by himself and his stepmother, Shirley Jones, were all the rage in the early seventies. It had several notable […]

AUSTIN, Tex. — Steve Mostyn, a Texas trial lawyer and one of the nation’s leading Democratic donors, who spent a fortune in a long effort to turn his reliably red home state blue, died on Wednesday at his home in Houston. He was 46. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled the death a […]

Tunisian Azzedine Alaia,  died on Saturday, November 18, 2017  in his adopted home of Paris where he was one of the couture fashion doyens.  His company said the cause was a heart attack.  He was eight-two years old.  Alaia was called a sculptor of the female form, notably worn by  the First Lady Michelle Obama  […]

The Transcendent Life of a Stoic Signora Morano was one of eight children, had a spare diet and separated from her husband eighty years ago, We know more of her diet — she ate eggs and chicken solely; no grains, no vegetables — than we do of her. Like Marcus Aurelius & the Roman Stoics […]

​​Today is the traditional celebration of Veteran’s Day, that holiday which honors military veterans; people who served in any capacity the United States Armed Forces. Originally it was called Armistice to commemorate the ending of World War I at precisely the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, but in […]

Walter Koch House System

Meghan Markle's British roots and how she come full circle.

Two of the five bright planets–Saturn and Mercury–are evening planets, but only Saturn is clearly visible after nightfall in early November, 2017. Right before Thanksgiving, on November 13th, Venus (at 08 Scorpio) will be exact to Jupiter and be like a “Moon shining on a lake, unveiling everyone’s darkest secrets.”   We base our chart at  […]

Today is Veterans’ Day, a federally mandated holidays in the US, for all those who served our country. Originally it was just for the dead and missing, but in 1954 Congress expanded it to everyone who served. I set our chart for the White House at the same time as the original Armistice was declared: […]

Today is the end of Summer time. It’s unofficially winter and the days will darken from here on until the solstice next month.  Our header picture is from Charleston where it is a glorious 80 degrees Fahrenheit with nary a cloud in the sky.  Next week though, the temps start dropping, so enjoy it while […]