If you pay attention to the news, it seems we are living in crazy times. Even though I try to remind myself that’s not entirely true–it’s just that “crazy” sells and the media is buying. I do my best to do my own ferreting out to find the truth, which mostly means staying away from what passes as “news” these days.
Sitting in a restaurant last night, my table was facing a grandmother, mother, and young son. As they were … Read More
If the weather forecast holds true, next weekend I foresee lots of grown humans coming over and remembering how to play again. The sound of slap-shots will reverberate for hours. And hot chocolate will pour freely.
We love our pond. But it’s not often that we get the perfect conditions where it’s cold enough, long enough, for it to freeze deeply enough without snow mucking up the whole deal. That’s why we get excited when we see this.
Having grown … Read More
I have a real problem with the loss of privacy and the escalation of personal tracking to serve us ever more advertising. Verizon is about as bad as any company gets, in my book. Read the following Gizmodo article for yourself. And then take the precautions listed below.
If you’re a Verizon customer, here’s how you can Opt Out:
-Login to your Verizon account https://www.verizon.com/myverizon/
-Go to this URL: http://vzw.com/myprivacy… Read More
Goblins, witches, ghosts take flight
In the shadows of the night.
Children flock from house to house
Greeted by a pumpkin mouse.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!… Read More
I was speaking with a long-time mentoring student who’s found himself working very hard not to become embroiled in verbal battles of late. His question to me was:
Is there a way that we can sanely engage in intelligent conversation
that can include differing views, without resorting to hostility?
Great question, don’t you think? Is it possible to discuss politics or religion, or anything we feel passionately about, without getting locked into stalemated arguments? Which usually results in the predictable … Read More
Lots of animal families live on our little corner of the wild kingdom. This family of wild turkeys is the most recent to take up residence. I find them particularly interesting in light of my recent viewing of PBS’ My Life as a Turkey.
When they’re all together, there’s quite a traffic jam as they try to make it from one end of the property to the other. That is until our traffic cops tell them to move it … Read More
The power went off at around midnight last night. My first thought was how beautiful the total darkness was. My second thought was that Cait was still downstairs with a visiting friend.
So I got the flashlight out of my nightstand and headed downstairs to pull out some lanterns for them.
I saw a bright light coming around the corner, heading up the stairs at the same time. It was Cait. She was using a flashlight app on her … Read More
Fireworks—classic component of the July 4th holiday weekend. Large crowds gather to watch the night sky turn technicolor. Often spectacular. Always noisy.
If there were any extra-terrestrials flying over, they got their own version of a fireworks display.
Both of the above examples unsettle me for different reasons. All you dog people know what’s wrong with the first example. And all you star gazers know what’s wrong with the second example.
These are the only fireworks that get me excited … Read More
