reflections on becoming native to this North Coast of California
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
One of our pair of resident hummers this year. In past years we've seen three around the feeder at times, but I've seen only two this year. However, they're still here as of New Year's Day.
On Turning 71 in 2017: Reporting Yet
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*My 71st Year*
*After surmounting three-score and ten,*
*With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,*
*My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life,...
Heil Fire
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Let's just say what every MAGA minion knows and applauds: General Charles
Brown, Jr. was fired as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he is
blac...
Tale of Two Upsets and New Look Warriors
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I recall watching the first championship game ever officially called the
Super Bowl in 1969. It was then still a game between that season's
champions of...
Star Trek's End? (With Update)
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Just as I can't un-see what I saw in the fifth episode of *Star Trek:
Picard*, I wonder if the damage it has done to the Star Trek universe can
ever be und...
Jonathan Miller
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Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by
the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various
times in ...
Turning 72: I Dwell in Possibility
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This blog hasn't been active in awhile, but I did post on significant
birthdays here: turning 60 and turning 65. Now I've gone past the 60s. So
although ...
Early Warning
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Jeff Masters at Weather Underground unearthed this brief video excerpt from
a Bell Laboratory Science series episode in 1958, that includes a mention
of ...
R.I.P. Ada Louise
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I never met Ada Louise Huxtable, though for a brief period we were both
writing for the New York Times. She even quoted me in one of her books, and
I certa...
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