Author: lcarlson

Fitting for today, July 4 Independence Day, is a drawing “Cell phone privacy” by Jack Ohman in The Sacramento Bee that shows how prescient Ben Franklin was:   Franklin is one of our heroes. As explained in an...

Homeowners, pubs, merchants, and office buildings are into the biking spirit. Street art is popping up all across Yorkshire.    

“Wear muted colors — we don’t want you to scare our sheep,” Tour de France cyclists are told by authorities This year’s Tour de France begins in Leeds, Yorkshire’s largest city   Day 1 Leeds to Harrogate — Day...

  Also added: pineapple buns, milk tea, umbrella making, and lantern making. Truly “Celebrating the Ordinary.” Read more about this news in the South China Morning Post’s article “The 480 things that represent...