Continue Reading Things to be grateful for: Nature With Thanksgiving coming up, I will devote this week’s musings to things I am grateful for. As so often, that puts nature in…
Continue Reading Detour to Vienna Since I was asked to explain how I come about the various topics for the blog, here is another example of chain…
Continue Reading Patterns Here is the chain of events that led to today’s blog. Another one of those days of just me and the dog…
Continue Reading On a personal note: The once-a-year mentioning of my annual calendar is upon us, or you, as the case may be. This year’s theme is Tied to…
Continue Reading One for the birds, again….. My grandfather was a small, musical man, his stand-up bass looming over him, or so it looked from the perspective of a…
Continue Reading Things to read on Kristallnacht We all face the choice between right and wrong, responsibility and recklessness, conscience and complicity. This from David From in today’s Atlantic writing on…
Continue Reading Mushrooms Galore Shortly after I first set foot on US soil in January 1978, New York City was blanketed by a snow storm. The…
Continue Reading The Day After I went to bed last night with a heavy heart, thinking how racism sells and how the efforts to suppress the vote,…
Continue Reading Distractions I iron when I need therapeutic diversion. I love to iron and to see all that crinkly stuff somehow get back in…
Continue Reading Would-be Revolutionaries Today is Guy Fawkes Day – or night, as the case may be. The annual commemoration of the gun powder plot is…
