Suprise Me

One can either greet the dawn or dread it. Read More

Occasionally I'd hear strange noises emanating from his basement office. Sometimes a squeak, sometimes a series of booms. Read More

My Conkeydoodle  I’ve had many loving family relationships,  and one of them was with Conkeydoodle.   (See Call Me by Their Names) Conkeydoodle’s father Jack and my father Arthur were first cousins,  so I guess that made me and Conkey second cousins – or maybe first cousins once removed,  we never could quite figure that out.… Read More

... it is the only thing I have that belonged to grandma Rose. Read More

Until the pandemic hit, the thing that caused me the most stress was my back pain. Read More

Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into imagining the universe beyond our mortal realm.  I was able to get through physics and chemistry because of science teachers who truly loved their subject, but astronomy was the one that caught on for me.… Read More

Watching all those colorful explosions shooting through the sky just makes me happy. Read More

I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on my knife. --Gelett Burgess Read More

In the 60s and 70s our television was our hearth. My family gathered around the RCA black-and-white to watch together, and the next day most friends and neighbors would have watched the same shows. Today we make a big deal about how music was the key cultural touchstone of that era, but I’m not so sure. TV generally followed… Read More

The epitome of grace, class, and intelligence, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was, from the time I was very young, my idol. She married John F. Kennedy when I was a baby and she set about having babies too. She was married to JFK a mere 10 years and was pregnant five times, resulting in only… Read More