Continue Reading Defying the Laws of Gravity Todays’ blog is brought to you by my garden’s hummingbirds. Now that the Buddleia is in bloom they are regular visitors. It…
Continue Reading See to it! “Ach Gottchen,”(Ohhhh, little God) my mother would cry when I’d appear tear-streaked in the door. Not clear if the diminutive name of…
Continue Reading No good guys. None. “So who are the good guys?,” my Beloved asked. “What do I know,” was my response, having only vague associations with Haiti,…
Continue Reading Citizen Informants Esther Bejarano z”l, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz’s girl orchestra, died this weekend at age 96. A life-long fighter for…
Continue Reading Here. Not Here. In the two previous blogs I wondered about ways to predict the future and ways to remember the past. So it seems…
Continue Reading (S)elective History I’m coming back to the topic of truthful accounting of history because it matters. Any form of society that wants to function…
Continue Reading Intersections During the days of apocalyptic heat I vegetated on the sofa in the basement, reading books on my Kindle. Nothing too demanding,…
Continue Reading Brain Melt. 45 C. That’s it. That’s the blog. Signing off for the week until I can think again. Meantime let’s listen to snow…
Continue Reading Punch Shakespeare The temperature for the next days will be 111 F/43.88 C degrees at the highest point. In June. In the Pacific Northwest….
Continue Reading The Punch of Words Today I’ll offer a random sampling of words that came across my desk in the last few days eliciting feelings – disgust,…
