Tonight it the all-star break in baseball here in the US.  There is a baseball statistic; batting a thousand means perfection.  No one has ever in the history of the game gone a season batting a thousand, at not least one that did not go up to the plate more than once.  .300 is actually the real number a hitter wants to stay above for the season.  Not many do.  That is why the get to play in the…

Been a while since I posted but this came to mind tonight.  Whatever happened to thank you?

                30 years ago growing up as a child I remember my grandmother saying to me when I had received something, what do we say?  The answer of course was Thank you.  Now it seems that phrase, those two little words have been removed from the English language here in the…