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We all have a list of things we haven’t done, but muse about.  “If I just had the time …”  “If there’s one thing I’d like to do …”  “It’s on my ‘bucket list’ …”  Admittedly, some are merely flights of fantasy. Most of us will never climb the Matterhorn, drive a Ferrari at 140 miles per hour, or appear on stage at Carnegie Hall. But, [...]

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean. – Zhuangzi What if you could see in four colors? Birds possess that ability, the capacity to see in not only the trichromatic spectrum enabled by the red, blue, and green cones that we are limited to in our human eyes, but also in ultraviolet, which we do not. Yet even that leaves birds as [...]

John Lennon summed it up. “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” Things change when we least expect them, and frankly, we can have no response other than to be swept away in the current. When these odd machines called computers emerged, it seemed that everyone with access to a keyboard and a mouse suddenly became a writer. Writing became [...]

Welcome to ice cream cone season. We doubt that there’s an official governmental edict designed to distinguish these summer days from the rest of the year, but with the way things have been going, that might not be far away. That, however, is a different subject. These are the days when we find our way to a local emporium with a few windows facing a [...]