Continue Reading SoCal Adventures Last week I visited Los Angeles for the first time ever. It was a fascinating experience, and so jam-packed during the 2.5…
Continue Reading From word to image Earlier this week I wrote about metaphors as a subtle way of manipulating people into supporting or refusing certain actions. Today, for…
Continue Reading Liar, liar…. Now why do you immediately assume I refer to a certain politician who shall remain nameless? Am I that predictable? No, I want…
Continue Reading Give those verbs a rest! Yesterday I tried to spell out that language does influence thought, although not in the direct, unchangeable way that anthropologists like Sapir…
Continue Reading Carnelian? Cornelian? Which shall it be? … a shimmering mass of cornelian leaves, dripping and moist with the rain. — Agnes Newton Keith, The Land Below the Wind, 1939 If you…
Continue Reading Merriam Webster to the Rescue Post-pandrial torpor, I think it’s called. That state when your brain has taken a leave of absence because the masses of Thanksgiving…
Continue Reading No Turkey to be seen I went on a turkey hunt yesterday, under a dark sky, with rain steadily falling, nature quietly preparing for the impending storm….
Continue Reading LBD – the Little Black Dress Let’s be frivolous and oblivious today and talk about fashion. Except…..wouldn’t you know it, even a little black dress hides larger…
Continue Reading A Soldier’s Journey: From Military Life to Art Academy “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain -…
Continue Reading Crisp Just so you see the rest of my week’s ambling, here are photographs of yesterday’s walk at the Sandy River Delta, a…
