by Chuck Douros
By Chuck Douros; Updated July 05, 2017
Wood stain adds beauty, character and essential protection to bare wood surfaces. Make your own stain with ordinary cider vinegar and rusty nails. Take a look around the garage and in the backyard for discarded, rusty metal and iron parts to add to this…
It’s the pinnacle of Scouting; the top of the mountain. The Eagle Scout rank takes years to attain and is the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve. Ask any scout and they’ll tell you they aspire to reach Eagle. Yet, historically less than five…
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. — Edgar Allan Poe, nineteenth-century American author and poet
Writing poetry is hard enough. Now add rules, impose structure, and leave off the page as much as you put on. That’s haiku…
Buried deep in the folds of the daily newspaper, comic strips still serve as popular culture barometers for millions of Americans. Since the late 19th century, comic strips such as “The Katzenjammer Kids” and “Gasoline Alley”…
If you close your eyes and visualize “notable Olympic athletes,” who comes to mind? Michael Phelps? Usain Bolt? Kobe Bryant? Maybe you went old school, and conjured up Muhammad Ali, Bruce Jenner or Gabrielle Reese. At an average height of 6 feet 4 inches tall, these giants of the…
This past spring, the Central Valley in California was treated to an impressive thunderstorm. We don’t often get front-row…
Give and receive the gift of green this holiday season. Green — by its 21st-century definition- is good.
