Tad's Happy Funtime

 Twenty years ago this particular September morning, I was taking my five-year-old to school, and half-listening as the KUPD "Morning S...

Over the summer, I took HIST 441 - History of German, 1871-1945, with Professor Zajicek at Towson University. Our term paper assignment was...

By the time  The Cosby Show   premiered in 1984, I was already a huge fan of Bill Cosby from his comedy albums. I don't remember when I ...

Her name was Ruby Bridges. I didn't know her name when I was a kid, but I can't count how many times I saw the stock footage of he...

When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, I was a happy boy. My first contact with Trek had come when my parents took me to ...

When I was a kid, I had the whole set of  ValueTales  books - a series that paired up historical figures with a cartoon sidekick and told th...

In 1974, when I was barely two years old, my mother bought a record: the soundtrack to the motion picture The Sting . I grew up hearing tha...