Imagine, if you will, a room full of your relatives and friends all patiently waiting your arrival and there you are… dressed in your Sunday best, string of pearls holding a tray of hot dogs and your famous homemade potato salad, descending down to a room made unusable by the very staircase you treasure so much (que the record scratch)

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Yea, me either… I would much prefer practical over grandness.  Let’s face it I’m not Scarlett O’Hara descending to Rhett Butler… more Carol Burnett with a drapery rod across my shoulders (you have to be close to my age for that one) just trying to maneuver  to the lower level… what were they thinking?

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So, I finally figured out why Apple designed the double tap on the AirPods to skip to the next song.  I grab my I-Touch and head to the treadmill, set the music to songs in my library then shuffle, and even though this device knows the correct time, day and date the developers were unable to avoid a Christmas song in May… just reach up double tap and move to the next song… genius!

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“Kiss of Life”

Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this is one of the most powerful photographs we’ve seen.  It shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a high voltage line.  It occurred in Jacksonville, Florida.  Champion survived thanks to Thompson’s efforts to resuscitate him.  The photo was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1968.