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In late winter, I would post spring updates here, pulling photos off the web to illustrate where my garden was heading. Then I stopped. Ther...

they climb like mad 

fiesta rose 

lemon-green daylily 

unkempt flower pots 

orchid? no, daylily 

Some of the reasons: 1. working out in 98 degree heat was so…toasty. 2. my “all you can yoga in a week for $14” deal ran out. 3. becaus...

Over the years, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists have left their home countries to travel to places where labs are well funded and opportu...

The missing very important piece of paper (VIPP, see post about it yesterday) is still missing. One moment it was on the counter, the next m...

I have been asked this quite a lot: “which language do you think in, Polish or English?” Possibly I have had this query levied at times when...

Next week, between Monday and Wednesday, I have what amounts to a nine-hour series of lectures to give on a topic that is not within my t...

Normally if I ask someone in an email “how’s it going” they respond that they are exceedingly busy and overworked and behind on their projec...

Tonight’s dinner was pizza. With all the trepidations surrounding the painting job (see post below), I didn’t have the mind nor the muscle t...

I have been repainting some of the rooms in the house this year. My study got the greenish-yellow treatment this winter and today I attacked...

George W. Bush came to Cheney’s defense today. Amidst speculations that, but for the threat of the lost conservative vote, GWB would be bett...

Though I am not a fan of nationalism of any sort, as far as holidays go, I do as the Romans do. I live here and if Americans grill things an...

I don't think of myself as ever having gloomy thoughts and worries about where it is that I'm heading with my life. In my mind, I le...

Look at me with incredulity if you wish, but I have to admit, I am a big fan of the books of Alain de Bottom. I foisted his “How Proust can ...

Very early in the day, you could go to the Morren’s Fruit Farm stand today at the Market and buy these: first raspberries of the season  ...

It was, weather-wise, a near-perfect day. It took 50 minutes to walk from my home to Greenway (Madison’s newest shopping place, where I had ...