Zenberg Blogue

We've been told that dropping the bomb saved lives and that Japan would have never surrendered had we not used the bomb .  Th...

 Let there be light   Seventy years ago today, a t 5:29 in the morning, the first plutonium implosion device , code named* Trin...

In the mid nineteenth century, making a detailed survey of the western part of the United States was a major priority for the government...

Mighty Mo and I have been having a great time enjoying the latest season... FALL. We spent a couple of days in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, ...

Earlier last month, when I first heard about the American helicopter full of Navy Seals being destroyed in Afghanistan , I turned to my w...

19th century wood cut of a Mormon pioneer wagon train from one of my favorite old books, Wife No. 19 or A Life in Bondage , (published and ...

When the movie ended, a twelve or so year old girl sitting couple of rows behind me said to her family, " That was officially the weir...

New Moon by Maxwell Parrish Last Thursday I stopped by Beach Street Cafe in Santa Cruz to enjoy the best Eggs Benedict this side of anywher...

Remember that Sesame Street song that made a fun game out of finding the thing that is different from the other three things? It went like ...

Eight years later ... Did you see the frightened ones Did you hear the falling bodies Did you ever wonder Why we had to run for shelter...

G umption. That's one thing I don't have an abundance of at the moment... at least when it comes to writing for my blog. Sure, I...

On this day in 1968, early in the morning, ranchers discovered that thousands of their sheep had mysteriously died overnight. Toxicologists ...

Actually, it may have been 1985 when Mighty Mo's siblings, John and Megan posed for these photos. Now they're all grown up and hav...

Inaug uration Day L ast year I purchased one of those George Bush countdown clocks for my father who has been one of President Bush's ...

Back in the twentieth century , when I was still a college boy, my chums and I used to take trips to the mysterious Parowan Gap. A perfect p...

Midnight Masses Holding out my drivers license and boarding pa ss for the s ecurity person to examine, after waiting in a long security lin...