Russell Ramblings

  There was a recent article posted on Fox News with the title “Why most people fall off a ‘health cliff’ at 75 — and 5 ways to avoid the ...

Back in 1956-1957 I was a 3rd grader in Alcott Elementary School. Two of the subjects that year were history and writing (in cursive). We ha...

It was a typical Saturday evening sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s in the small town of Wolcott. Four young couples in their late 2...

                 On June 10, we had the closing on our old house. Everything went quite smoothly. I was able to use the proceeds from the sa...

I’ve known the basic story of my grandfather’s birth, how his mother died as result of complications of childbirth, and how he was raised by...

[Snapping Turtle]   Introduction A distant relative with whom I have developed a good relationship has recently moved from Connecticut...

My younger brother, Edd, recently posted in his blog an article titled “What is Truth” (see here ). As he noted when posting it, “Warning: i...