Few people have heard of the Battle of Taranto, which took place at the beginning of WWII before the U.S. entered the conflict.

I despise poker. I’m not a poker-playing aficionado. In fact, I’d rather try to spell “aficionado” with one hand tied behind my back and spell-check turned off than play poker.

When my son Homer was 12, he was given his first .22-caliber rifle to hunt rabbits and squirrels. We had an old irrigating pickup that barely ran, and he could take that pickup with his .22 to the gravel pits about a mile away and hunt for hours.

I lost my hearing on the back of a spud harvester. Where did you lose yours?

In the mid-1800s, some pioneers too poor to buy wagons and teams migrated West by pulling handcarts piled high with tools, seeds, blankets, beans, flour and a little lard.

The yoke of the cart only accommodated two people, so other family members pushed from behind. Hence came the saying, “For some must push and some must pull.”

It’s another busy day and you have a lot on your mind. Whatever it is, we’d slike you to share it with us! In this new feature section, we invite you to share comments, events, questions for authors, pictures, equipment innovations, ideas and opinions.

The proper and expected thing to do in this, my editorial debut, would be to introduce myself. But really, as I often tell my children, “It’s not about you” (or me for that matter). There are simply more important things to discuss.

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
—Eckhart Tolle