Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

The front page of this blog is littered with sad news of great people who have left us in the last week or so. The sadness continues: Robert H. Justman, who helped bring the original “Star Trek” as well as  [more...]

Maybe it is the slow build up, over decades, of disappointment after disappointment; of defeats and expectations and obligations. I don’t know what tiny weight broke the camel’s back, but I suspect it began  [more...]

The squirrels in my neighborhood love to hang around me. At Halloween, they congregated at my front door and took turns eating the pumpkin on the front step. Sometimes, one will climb down my chimney. I’ll hear a  [more...]