Only As Smart As Your Sources? Last year, a local all-news radio station introduced a new slogan that puzzled me. “You’re only as smart as your sources.” The message is obvious: “We are your best news source, so tune in to us.” But day after day, the slogan kept poking…
Be Who You Are To Oscar Wilde this quotation is usually attributed: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” This is amusing, but it really resonates, doesn’t it? Our culture has, does, and always will try to control who and what we are. It sets standards, and if we adhere…
Friday, February 4, 2022 Natterings Wow! Am I way behind, or what? My natterings today warrant little attention, but maybe by recounting some of them here, I can set them aside. Maybe. Of course, Christmas doesn’t help one maintain a schedule at all. Distractions unrelated to the holidays always…
December 6, 2021 The Value of What Has Little Value I got to thinking about what’s significant and what’s not. What I might consider has no value may have value to someone else. As the old adage goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” In the bit below about…
Sunday, October 24, 2021 Everything In Its Time It’s curious how often people who have acquired one of my books apologize, when I run into them, for not having read it yet. I have no way of knowing if they have or haven’t, since I’m not joined to them at…
Monday, October 4, 2021 What’s the Rush? September traditionally is a totally crazy month in my world, with no time to go to the bathroom. How on earth did my husband and I find time to get married in September? (Thirty-six years ago! Huzzah!) But in more recent years I’ve…
Excerpts from Chapter XIII: An Island of Water, pp. 324-327 The Arcturus Adventure William Beebe Director, Dept. of Tropical Research First Oceanographic Expedition of the New York Zoological Society P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press 1926 [The vessel Arcturus has anchored for the night in a…
Friday, September 10, 2021 Work: An End Unto Itself As a species, we are designed for work. Without it, we wither physically, spiritually, mentally, and morally. A lack of work can literally kill us – a very slow death. Our culture, however, has trained us to consider work as –…
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 Too Much Noodling, Not Enough Nattering OK, I’ve noodled around with this newsletter long enough. And not enough, or it would have been out weeks ago. Its main topic is snails, but the ideas have been moving at less than a snail’s pace in my beady…
Sunday, June 13, 2021 Flag Day Within the space of four and a half weeks every year, the United States of America has three national days the feature our National Colors prominently: Memorial Day, Flag Day, and the Fourth of July. Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day, so I thought…
