We lived on Route 66, which John Steinbeck had called “The Mother Road.”  We listened to musicians like Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and countless others sing about getting their kicks on the highway that ran through our town.

The late Tina Turner and I had at least two things in common. We both graduated from high school in St. Louis (she in 1958 and I in 1966)…..

In a speech in Paris 104 years ago Albert Einstein memorably said, “If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France…

I have something in common with Joshua Harris the billionaire who owns the Washington Commanders, Philadelphia 76ers, and New Jersey Devils. Harris just…

It may come as a surprise to some alert readers (ARs) to read that the Amazon River (also AR) used to flow from east to west. I am not making this up. Sometime…

The Schlafly Tap Room and The East Wing of The White House were both built in 1902. This was the same year Friedrich Trump married Elisabeth Christ in Kallstadt…

I incorporated The Saint Louis Brewery, Inc. on August 22, 1989. Two and a half months later, on November 9, The Berlin Wall came down. At the time the neighborhood…

Back in May President Trump famously compared the gift of a $400 million Boeing 747 from the government of Qatar to a gimme on the golf course. Like most alert…

One of the biggest threats to the integrity of sports is posed by performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Back in 1904 Thomas Hibbs won the Olympic Marathon in St…

Someone told me. It’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it. I do believe it’s true. Alert readers (ARs) who were alive and alert in the 1960s — not everyone was…

As Americans celebrate the 4^th of July it’s worth recalling that obnoxious and burdensome tariffs were among the major grievances the colonists held against...

In 1973, while  Richard  Nixon was in The White House, I was a few miles away teaching high school students how to become alert readers (ARs). More specifically…