Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: The Poem:           APRIL Now out of this vast silence the cherry trees scraping their gnarled limbs on the sky, and the wind

Dear Friends, Tangents: Tomb sweeping Day, Taiwan. April 5, 1984: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday. On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday.  Happy April 1st! April is the month of golden Aphrodite (Etruscan apru), modest, gentle goddess of love

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday Eve. March 31, 1889: The 984-foot (300 meter) Eiffel Tower, a wrought iron technological masterpiece created by

Dear Friends, Tangents: March 30, 1858 – pencil patented. In 1988, explorer and educator Helen Thayer, 51, becomes the first woman to