This Florida girl may have (re)learned that the Connecticut sun isn't as wimpy as it first appears. After some days when the...
How is trust broken? It may be by a sudden betrayal, but often you wake up one day and realize that the perfidy has been a long time...
It's not often we go to a movie theater. Seriously. I may have forgotten something, but I believe the last time we did so was in 2016,...
Enough is enough. I won't drink Bud Light. I won't buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Big deal. I don't like beer, and I've long...
Mid-July is a good time to pay my annual homage to Saint Willis Carrier. He's not a Catholic saint, nor an Anglican saint, nor a saint...
Everybody knows and loves bagels. But would you believe I'd never eaten, seen, or even heard of bagels until I went to college? My...
There's a place for professionals, and a time to enjoy the excellence that can only be attained by those who have dedicated most of...
About a million years ago, when I was applying to colleges, high on my list was Harvey Mudd College near Los Angeles, California. At the...
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and the coronation of King Charles III, which heightened our awareness...
I've mentioned the Task & Purpose YouTube channel before . Here's another fascinating report, about how Raytheon's new laser...
Here ya' go. No politics, nothing depressing. Serious, but light. No puppies or kittens, but Beaver Engineers. Take a couple of minutes...
I just saw an awesome t-shirt; if I had documented Native American blood in my lineage, I'd buy one immediately. Back in the days...
Soon after Russia invaded the Ukraine, I posted this plea to Pray for Russia . Over a year later, the need is greater still. I'm a...
You know I'm a big fan of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying—the folks I call my favorite Left Coast Liberals. There's a lot we...
If you want to be a local guide for the Viking cruise line, one of the most important things to remember is that a large number of your...
One of these days I hope to have a more coherent set of posts about our recent cruise, but that will be a while—and I still have...
I am not and have never been one who desires a "spa treatment." Manicures, pedicures, full-body massages, facials, being rubbed with...
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood..." Oh, wait, that was a different war. But here, where we are berthed, on September 1,...
The following is excerpted from an article in the June 1980 National Geographic magazine: "Indonesia’s Orangutans: Living...
In a post from earlier this year, The Domestication of City Dwellers , Heather Heying expresses many of my doubts about the crazy new...
I couldn't resist that subject title, because it certainly grabbed my attention as the lead-in to an excerpt from a conversation between...
A lot has changed in 35 years, and not all for the better. Looking through some old journal entries, I read about a time when our...
I liked Bed, Bath and Beyond. The prices were usually a little higher than elsewhere, but there was always a good coupon...
In times of crisis, traditional rules of procedural fairness can be modified. So said Gerard Kennedy, Canadian law...