Posts by Janet Ann Collins

It makes me sad that the color blue is associated with sadness. Why is it considered sad to “have the blues?” To me, blue is the most joyful of all colors. There’s nothing I can see that makes me happier than a beautiful, blue sky. And what about someone’s lovely blue eyes? I know a…

When I was a kid and my little brother was learning to talk I could understand him when my parents couldn’t, and they’d often ask me to tell them what he was saying. I was an interpreter! I now realize he was using intonation patterns instead of words to communicate. When I was five years…

Today’s date in numbers is 2/2/’22. That is a nice sequence and would be a great day for a special occasion like a wedding or baby to be born. The next similar date will be 3/3/’33 but that will be 2033 instead of 3033. So today is a special day and I hope everyone finds…

Every year every car manufacturer comes out with new designs.And every design must have a new name.That wasn’t difficult back in the 1940s and earlier. (My father had a Hudson-Essex Terraplane. I think it had been built in 1913.)But, how in the world can they keep thinking of more changes to vehicles, and then new…

Back in history men usually took on the same jobs their fathers had. Because some ancestor had taken on the job of a carpenter in the past, Joseph was a carpenter. If he’d been a rabbi, priest, farmer or fisherman he couldn’t have just left everything and gone to Egypt. Because his family had gold,…

I can’t remember where I saw this information, but it goes with my previous controversial posts about Christmas. Back when Jesus was born, young people usually lived with their parents until they got married. There were no official wedding ceremonies where couples exchanged vows. Instead, they would have a big banquet party to announce that…

I’ve always wondered where people got the ideas that angels were ladies in white dresses who sat on clouds and played harps, and Cherubs were baby angels. Centuries ago people had no idea of the size of the Universe, and clouds wereconsidered part of the sky. White was considered a symbol of purity and harps…

Christmas cards and picture books usually show a stable as a small building in a meadow or field and the manger as a box like a bassinet with the infant Jesus lying in it. But that is completely wrong. The manger was a feeding trough, big enough for Mary to lie in while giving birth.…

Lots of Christmas cards and illustrations show three kings, each carrying a gift, going to Bethlehem or arriving at the stable where Jesus was born. But those pictures are not accurate. In the first place, those men were not kings. I guess during the Middle Ages it was assumed if they had such expensive gifts…