Christmas time is a magical time. Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, cultures worldwide have a midwinter festival. They come in many forms and flavors, but most share a few things. It’s a time of community, where families come together and celebrate their previous year while looking forward to the next. My family was not […]

There’s something about trains that make them perfect as toys. Sure, there are remote-controlled cars and planes, and helicopters have grown in the marketplace as drones become cheaper and more accessible for people. However, trains have always been timeless and easy. This simplicity could be because they run on a track that allows them to

Introduction All across the country, there are places where heroes can be found every day. These are places where the most tireless warriors battle with the most insidious, fearsome opponents. What are these battlegrounds called? Hospitals. Doctors, nurses, and medical personnel of all stripes spend their days keeping death and sickness at bay for a

Introduction In 1956, policing in America gained a whole new dimension. Literally. Police Helicopters gave American Police Forces a third dimension to move in, and the first one was used by the LAPD in 1956. It successfully inspired a program to fund more helicopters and pilots for the police, dubbed “Project: Sky Knight.” Before the

Introduction In 1903, two North Carolina brothers broke the binds gravity had held on us for thousands of years. They built on the knowledge and innovations of those who had gone before to create something unique. Although they weren’t the first to try, they were the first to succeed. For roughly half that time, LEGO

You would think that a building block set like LEGO would help people spread their imagination toward fictional creations like alien planets and dragons, and it does. But I’m surprised how imaginative sets can get with real-world assets, too. And when it comes to vehicles, LEGO does not get more inventive than it does with

I vividly remember the turn of the millennium.  People were rabidly terrified of “Y2K”, a phenomenon that they insisted would crash all the computers in the world and plunge us into a new dark age. Clearly, that didn’t end up happening. That doesn’t mean that times didn’t change.  The end of a decade is considered

We’re an insatiably curious and creative species. Mankind has dreamed of what lays among the stars for as long as we’ve been able to gaze up at them. The saying is, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and humans have always sought to fill those voids. There’s no more immense void than open space. Who knows what

The eighties were a time of neon lights, loud music, and changing perceptions. Where the seventies were a time of pastels and abstractions, the eighties were about the angles and electric shades of otherwise typical colors. At least, that’s the impression I get from old cartoons.  I just barely missed out on the eighties.  However,