Life is good

It was one of those dinner times. Certain of the offspring acting up, Police Dad trying to enforce some kind of order; couldn’t wait for it to be over (despite the fact that the food was quite good). One of those times when you look longingly at the Way-Better-Half and dream about how pleasant the [...]

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I am not here…but wish I was!

It’s OK to dream. And here is my earthly dream destination.
A house on a lake. Preferably in the Adirondacks. With plenty of room for guests, and (eventually) grandchildren.
To get up in the morning, read and think and work and write by the waterfront, coffee in hand and camera ready for the next moment of beauty…
But [...]

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Go Vandy!

My alma mater, Vanderbilt, has reached the Sweet 16 in the NCAA basketball tournament.
I will note that the alma mater of my brothers, and even of my bride, UConn, is no longer present and accounted for. Now I do like seeing UConn win, but Vandy needs a shot here!
And here is a very interesting article [...]

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Working at home

For the past 8 months, I’ve been working from home as a consultant, and overall, I love it.
At times, however, I’ve got to escape. That’s where Retro Fitness comes in!
One of the frustrations of my prior job was that I could not schedule time and opportunity to get/stay in shape. For the past 6 months, [...]

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New hormone found!

Everyone knows about estrogen, the consummate female hormone; and testosterone, that chemical fuel of maleness. But now, in a striking new finding, a third major hormone has been identified, which up to now has been “cloaked” under the overarching influence of testosterone. This remora of hormonal entities was uncovered in a retrospective study of 3,592,103 [...]

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Lunar Eclipse

As I write, a near-total lunar eclipse is in progress outside – just came in from the awesome sight of a darkened reddish moon, in the midst of that rarest of conjunctions, nice weather accompanying a stellar event!
My Fiver got to look through big-person binoculars to see his first eclipse. Will he remember it? I [...]

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The winter that wasn’t

Here in the northeast, it hasn’t been much of a winter. The Queen and I took a stroll around the yard today – I didn’t need a jacket – and saw some snowdrops popping up, while the last of the snowmen continued their inexorable downward return to the water table.
I’m ready. Unless there’s a ton [...]

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I’m being used

We’ve been together for years.
I’m not going to send her away. And, she doesn’t seem inclined to leave. But this relationship hasn’t been what I had hoped it would be.
She stays with me, I suspect, because it’s convenient. I feel like my role in life is to provide for her needs. She doesn’t display a [...]

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Seeing Saturn

New Saturn images, sent via return space-mail from Cassini.
Unbelievable!

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