Continue Reading Things to be grateful for: Activism In no particular order I am going to applaud movements carried by young people this year. Youth has always had a major…
Continue Reading Things to be grateful for: Science Wheat I am always thankful when there is a scientific explanations for things that I find troubling. And never more so than when…
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,…
