Continue Reading Scents and Sensibility When you catch me reading Popular Mechanics you know something is off. Well, you should know if you are a regular…
Continue Reading Environmental Influence (1) Today I want to introduce a surrealist painter, Arturo Nathan, who was born into a Jewish family in Trieste, Italy in 1891…
Continue Reading Reveling in the Present The last photographers I want to introduce this week are wizards when it comes to capturing birds on camera. It doesn’t hurt…
Continue Reading Documenting Past and Present Give me an example where you felt triumphant and demoralized at the same time. Nothing comes to mind? Here is one of…
Continue Reading Imagined Past and Future These days I have a hard time remembering all the stuff I read during the course of a week. By all I…
Continue Reading Narrative grab Yesterday’s NYT had an opinion piece on aliens – you know, the extraterrestrials who are rumored to exist, evidence of whom is…
Continue Reading Annoyance Today I’ll attempt to come to terms with some terms ascribed to me by self and/or others. Too frequently these days, I…
Continue Reading Mother’s Day Let me take yesterday’s Mothers’ Day as my annual occasion to remind all of us that mothering would not be possible but…
Continue Reading Old – and magical There are days where magic needs to come to the rescue. Luckily for me, all I have to do is visit a…
Continue Reading Old – and White “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — the point, however, is to change it.” Happy birthday, Karl Marx! Today’s…
