Saturday, March 9, 2024 Dogs The longer I live, the more dogs impress me. Surely, they are one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind. We humans get along well with them partly because their social structure is similar to ours. The dog owners among you likely recognized long ago that…
Thursday, February 1, 2024 Idleness? Or Industry? Yes, I know, I’ve been neglecting you. No worries: I have not been sick, nor have I been kidnapped by penguins to live in Antarctica. In the last six months other activities and interests convinced me to pay attention to them. I cheerily…
August 1, 2023 From Dampness to Downright Downpours Every few years we have a summer that resembles a steam bath. This is one of them. Back in the summer of 1975, in the opening days of the Bicentennial, it rained every weekend. Yes, every weekend. I was working in the…
Saturday, July 1, 2023 Graduations Graduations most often happen in the month of June, usually celebrating the end of a certain level of formal schooling. They are milestones in one’s life. How often, later in life, do we identify ourselves as part of “the Class of 1972” or “the Class…
Monday, December 19, 2022 Broken Ties I’ve been discombobulated lately. (Now, there’s a word you don’t often come across.) First, we had a three-day internet outage from a broken ethernet cable. Its tiny internal wires rusted through after exposure to the elements by squirrels who chewed up the wire’s…
Thursday, May 4, 2023 A Loaf of Bread It came and went on the spring equinox and I missed it, but I’ll save it for next year: National French Bread Day, celebrated on the 21st of March. Who knew? (Evidently a lot of people, enough to warrant many sites on…
Monday, February 20, 2023 To Tease Your Mind There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is…
A Personal History of Knitting I’ve resumed regular knitting lately. My mother taught me to knit when I was four years old. My first project was a necktie for my father. My father was an electrical engineer by trade. Every day he dressed in a suit and tie and…
December 1, 2022 Social Media Frustration Two weeks ago, I closed a certain social media account because of the platform’s inability to articulate their problem with my posts. They say they encourage businesses to learn from each other and collaborate. (Sounds good!) They say they do not allow hard-sell, spammy,…
October 23, 2022 You’re Never Too Old Recent activities this summer and fall have been senior writing workshops organized by The Room to Write (TRtW). This local non-profit organization’s mission is: To connect and support writers of all ages, abilities and means, by providing the physical space and structured support…
