Ocean

A reader wrote to tell me he had recently received a complementary book in the mail (he is a sociologist and the book appears to fit into ...

Sometimes there is a total disconnect between what you want to accomplish in a day, or in an email, or in a post (your intent) and what ul...

Last night I pulled weeds, all 847 of them, until it was so dark that I couldn’t tell a weed from an honest plant. The perennial bed...

I’ve blogged about my mom on numerous occasions, particularly around the time of the primaries. Though she is 80 years old, I don’t think mo...

In the NYT Sunday Travel Section there is an article about Warsaw ( here ). I was expecting it, really, what with May 1st being just days aw...

If you were a birch tree today ( IF YOU WERE A BIRCH TREE??? ), you might want someone to write and revel in your good looks. I am provi...

Last night two very wonderful people came to dinner. As is my custom, I identify no one outside the blogger community by name here and so th...

Depending on whom you ask, cyclists around town are either a supreme menace, or are menaced by the world of cars. Cross, say, University Ave...

(it’s not all about plants you know) If you were to look outside right now, directly into the morning sun, you would see the rays workin...

As a young kid, I used to sit outdoors next to my grandfather quite often. He and I shared a love of sun, plants, fresh air, spring. A favor...

To no one’s surprise, I’m sure, a Wisconsin patrolman took the first prize in the annual doughnut-eating contest for police officers (story ...

It was disheartening to read the New Yorker story ( here ) on Kerry and his use of the French language when among French diplomats or journa...

Say you’ve just written a mystery-thriller novel. All characters appear to be fictionalized versions of people out there. You’ve inserted th...

There are four weblogs out there that keep me going each day. There are others, too, but these four are what I start the weblog day with and...

That is the question I wanted to ask a student who came by to talk about his work plans for the summer. My memory may be off a bit, but I sw...

I was taking a morning sprint through Owen Woods when I came across a police officer and a squad car. Being rather in a fine mood and not ...

Watching the GWB press conference today, I noted (as I hope the rest of America noted) that his greatest source of difficulty was with the ...

(Where inconsequentiality and lightness return to the blog) Today marked the beginning of the end: I gave out course evaluations in my big...

This question is posed by Dr. Crick, who, at 87, is still attempting to determine what creates conscious awareness. Is there a dividing lin...

So long as we are on that side of the Atlantic (see post below about Slovakia), I thought I’d sneak in a post about the Siberian Iris – a ...