Have you ever wondered if most people save winning lottery tickets as a souvenir of a life-changing moment? In 1948, my husband’s grandfather won a brand new car in a raffle.

Mi ne povas kredi nin ne estas ĉiuj parolanta Esperanton de nun — I think that means “I can’t believe we are not all speaking Esperanto by now”…

Dale Evans, married to Roy Rogers, managed to brand herself as a feminine yet gritty cowgirl who, without hesitation, would start a gunfight if it meant upholding justice…

Roy Rogers was King of the Cowboys during the 20th century cowboy craze. He was also a branding genius.

One of the great things we seem to miss out in this age of digital photography is the handwritten note on the back of the printed photograph…

A young girl from Ottawa emailed me on Wednesday to offer congratulations on the 10th Anniversary of this stamp issue…

I had often seen this map of the mind on book covers and stock image websites, but I didn’t realize that this was the exact image sitting in the front of a early 20th-century encyclopedia that sits in my living room.

A few things you can find when snooping through other people’s stuff.

This CP Brochure, from the late 50s/early 60s was found with my TransCanada Airlines brochure. As you can see, it illustrates Canadian Pacific’s apparent need to dominate earth-, land- and water-travel.

Last month my husband, children, and I made the long drive back to the prairies to see family and friends, and to visit places we never gave ourselves a chance to visit before. We came across this little ashtray in my Mother- and Father-in-law’s garage, in a box of odds and ends that my husband’s grandmother was giving away.