When you are young you write either romantic or depressive poetry or both. When you are older, you write stories of whatever genre....
There are plenty of times I grumble about Google, but not today. As I work my way through the nearly 5,000 photos and assorted...
I don't care if your question is about climate change or about your niece's latest romance, I can answer it with two words: It's...
During our recent visit to the Netherlands with our Swiss grandchildren, we enjoyed a visit to the Openluchtmuseum...
In one of the early episodes of the TV show Monk , Adrian Monk's assistant, Sharona Fleming, explains, "I never vote; it only...
As usual, jet lag is kicking me on the return trip. (The outbound trip is much easier, for several reasons.) I had thought I was over it...
The infamous Blue Screen of Death is all too familiar to my generation of Windows users. It may be that blue screens are now causing...
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is and What You Can Do about It by Steven Pressfield ( Black Irish...
From J. R. R. Tolkien, in The Return of the King , Appendix F. In those days all the enemies of the Enemy revered what was...
I first noticed it when Porter was working with coworkers from India, part of the great outsourcing/offshoring boom in the early part of...
We're home after a month overseas, and it's raining. Europe has been experiencing a drought so severe that our Viking River Cruise...
I try hard not to judge a president, for good or for ill, until years after his term has ended. History does much to clear the clouded...
The University of Rochester is the alma mater of three quarters of our immediate family. I've never had much of what they call school...
For the past several months we have been posting, day by day, Porter's transcription of the World War I diary kept by Hezekiah Scovil...
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Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...