Your Questions–Answered!
Thank you all for the nice comments and kindly wishes last week. I do appreciate it. I’m no closer to finishing that post I alluded to on Friday, and the longer I go without finishing it, the less likely it is to get done. But maybe that’s a good thing, because it was conceived largely […]
Question Time
Weather update: we’ve had several days of above freezing temperatures, plus some actual rain! More important, this week I saw my first turkey vultures and red-winged blackbirds (both on the same day) of the season. The calendar says spring, and now the animals are starting to agree. Yes, I’ve been a bit obsessive about the […]
A Quote
From Bill Watterson, the man behind Calvin and Hobbes, which may be the greatest comic strip ever: Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered […]
The Automated Poet
One week ago today, I heard a story on the news as I was driving into work that almost made me drive off the road into the lake (I exaggerate, just a wee bit). A student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a computer program that analyzed the works of Shakespeare, then helped the […]
A Thought for Friday
The Catbird and her school watched Hotel Rwanda in school today. Hotel Rwanda is the story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan hotel manager who saved some 1,200 people from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. She was understandably upset about what she saw during the film, and about the fact that things like that are still […]
Super-de-dupery
Today’s post comes from the Department of Better Late Than Never. It turned out to be a pretty good day. Despite the fact that it was yet another day of waking up to sub-zero temperatures, and that I could not get my act together in time to get a post out this morning, the day […]
Weekend Update
Hmm, this is one Monday where I feel less prepared than usual. Let’s see, what’s new? -We took the Magpie back to college yesterday, and already the house seems much quieter. Sadly, her roommate had to leave school at the midpoint and she was assigned a new roomie. The good news is, they seem to […]
Monday Musing: Being Limited
We live in a world that is being increasingly sorted. Whenever I log into Facebook, the same posts from the same people just keep popping up to the top of my feeder, never mind that I already saw it on Friday morning…and Saturday afternoon…and night…and yesterday, and never mind that I didn’t comment or like […]
Happy New Year–And an Announcement!
EDITED BECAUSE I’M A NINNY Matt Sinclair, a regular contributor to the excellent blog From The Write Angle and chief brain behind Elephant’s Bookshelf Press, announced just before Christmas EBP’s next anthology (after Winter Regrets, that is). Here’s the announcement, ripped from EBP’s blog: Elephant’s Bookshelf Press is putting together an antibullying anthology for kids […]
Lazy Blogger
Well, it’s official–I’m getting sloppy with the bloggy. I missed last Monday, though I’m happy to say the world didn’t come to a fiery end because of it. I was actually working with great diligence on a post that was going to be about the horrible events that took place in the Boston-Pittsburgh hockey game […]