Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Few things are as comforting as an old familiar favorite book.  For me, that book is Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn .  I’ve read the book so...

Two years ago, I wrote about the Grain de Sail —a small cargo ship powered exclusively by its sails, that makes two voyages a year bringing ...

Overall, the new microwave is wonderful.  It is powerful enough to incinerate food in just a few seconds, big enough to cook a turkey (does ...

First off, I will admit that the words “Super Cub” immediately bring to my mind a 1949 Piper two-seat tail-dragger.  This is the beautiful a...

Since the founding of the first colonies, America has had a complicated, love-hate relationship with the concept of free trade—the legal rig...

Did you ever know something that you thought everyone knew, but it turned out that almost no one knew it?  When I was growing up out in the ...

I could write endlessly about this topic.  Which war?  And from whose point of view?  Both Colt and Winchester claimed they produced the gun...

Volkswagen makes a neat little pickup called the Amarok, but unless you travel to Europe, you’ll probably never see one.  In Australia, they...

Full disclosure.  I’m a compulsive note taker.  Not just in class (though my class notes are so good that at the end of the semester I have ...