Mar 11, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Back by popular demand is a new version of pretty useless information helpful only for personal edification or to make bar bets. Did you know… Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Pearls melt in vinegar. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal...
Mar 4, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I was out shoveling snow again (imagine that) when a low flying single engine airplane buzzed over the wilderness retreat. The moment brought back the couple of times that I was airborne in a small single engine plane. The first time was in the late...
Feb 25, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Don’t blame me for this column. Author, speaker, teacher Richard Lederer is known for his word play and he gets the credit. There are some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. Anyone born after the...
Feb 18, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The next time the conversation lulls around your dinner table, try to stimulate it with one or two of these little known tidbits. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly...
Feb 11, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Back in the 1960’s, pop-rock singer Melanie charted a Top 10 song “I’ve Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates (You’ve Got A Brand New Key)”. For you youthful millennials, way back when, roller skates clamped to your...
Feb 4, 2015 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A few weekend’s back we got a dusting of snow, later New York got a scare and New England got walloped with the white stuff. Following a snow I always admire how fresh the wilderness retreat looks with a cleansing white covering of snow. Blazing a...
