The Mommy Rant

Jesus of Nazareth was 33 when he died at the beginning of the AD calendar.  Jesus’s contributions were many. His most well-known may have...

Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, was only 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. I have never looked particularly good in leather pants.

H.P. Lovecraft was 46 when he succumbed to cancer in 1937 after postponing going to the doctor’s office like a typical guy. Not famous in h...

Pretty sure I’ve outlived half the Kennedy clan. Joe Kennedy Jr., died at 29 in 1944. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was 28 when she died in 1...

Not just the protagonist of a Grateful Dead tune, Jonathan “Casey” Jones was a real life train engineer who died at 37 because he stayed on...

I don’t know how old Judas Iscariot was when he killed himself after turning Jesus over to the Roman authorities for 30 pieces of silver bu...

Escape artist Harry Houdini was known for escaping from milk crates, chains, and straitjackets, but he died in 47 in 1926 from an apparent ...

Wikipedia describes Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and militar...

Anne Frank was 15 when she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.  She would have been 17 in 1947 when her book “Diary of ...

The King of Rock and Roll was 42 when he was found dead in the upstairs bathroom of his mansion, Graceland, supporting the finings that the...

James Dean was 24 when he died in 1955 leaving a wrecked sports car and legions of heartbroken female fans. I drive a staid and reliable min...

Cleopatra was 39 when she died in August of 30 BC. Among other things, she had an extramarital affair with Julius Caesar, though who can bla...

Blackbeard (or Edward Teague as he was known by his Christmas Club account) was only 38 when he was killed off the coast of Virginia in 1718...

Alexander the Great (or Alexander III of Macedon as his creditors referred to him) was only 32 when he died in June of 323 BC and still he m...

It’s always a sobering thought when you realize that you’re older now that most of the people you thought were old when you were a kid. Well...

Hmmm. Is someone having a birthday in less than a month? Here's another post about feeling old... Do you think the gas station attenda...

I Guess I'm bad. song: Only the Good Die Young • artist: Billy Joel

N just said that his favorite Christmas present was the Silly Putty he got in his stocking. If I'd known in advance that that would be ...

In the headlights - snow The Millennium Falcon Is in hyperdrive

A man who was born to run wrote songs that were number one. He went dancing in the dark, down in Ashbury Park. His glory days as yet, ar...