What I learned by reading Alan Osmond's obituary today: The Osmond Family have actually been performing since the 1950s, when they were all little children. They got a gig as a kiddie barbershop quartet at Disneyland; that led to them appearing on "The Wonderful World of Disney;" that caught the attention of Andy Williams, who signed them to a five-year contract for his variety show; and that's what turned them into national celebrities in the 1970s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/arts/music/alan-osmond-dead.html
Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76
He was the eldest original member of the Osmonds, a family singing group that hit it big in the 1970s with songs like “One Bad Apple.”
I got rid of my Marie Kondo book because it didn't spark joy.
Thank God this Gmail AI bot is here to decipher and simplify the unreadably complex emails I receive on a regular basis
One thing I've realized over the years is that why certain industries can be disrupted is because the people who like doing it the old way only hire people who ALSO like to do it the old way, no matter how outdated it becomes. I'm being forced today to watch local TV news for the first time in decades, for example, and it's STILL giving the weather "on the 1s" (12:01, 12:11, 12:21, etc.), with the hundreds of people responsible for that show collectively pretending that cellphones don't exist.
I really hate that today's crossword asked for the name of the dog from "Hagar the Horrible," and I immediately knew it without hesitation.
Oh, yeah, there was that time he released a black rectangle; then that time he released a black rectangle; and then there was that time he released a black rectangle!
https://lifehacker.com/tech/biggest-moments-in-tim-cooks-time-as-apple-ceo
11 of the Biggest Moments in Tim Cook's Time As Apple CEO
Apple's Tim Cook is stepping down in September after 15 years as CEO of Apple. These are 11 of the company's biggest moments during the Cook era.
"They Said I'm Too Old to Make Techno"
The Nazis Quietly Made 1 Change to Poland in 1939, And It Changed Everything
A South Carolina man inherited 17 extremely rare books from his father after his death; when he took them to a dealer to get an estimate of their worth, only then did he learn that his father actually stole them as a young man from the estate of Eli Whitney, and had been hoarding them in a box under his bed for half a century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/arts/john-keats-letters-fanny-brawne-stolen.html
Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found
The eight letters by the 19th-century Romantic poet to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne, were taken decades ago from a Whitney family estate on Long Island.
The first public review of my new cat memoir is out. He compares it to "All Creatures Great and Small," and how can I not be flattered by that?! Check out the book itself at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWD3M9J8/ , or the free making-of guide to this self-published book at my freelancing website,
https://Pettus.rocks/Sunny .
Alice McFlurry 
