It’s a beautiful and warm spring day, although by the calendar, it is still winter. The trees remain devoid of leaves,and most of the spring flowers are but nascent green shoots. The calendar tells me it’s still winter, but my heart and my spirit tell me it’s spring and so does the sunshine that seems more at ease… Read More »
The Stop Online Piracy Act There’s a problem with censorship. The problem with censorship is: it never works. Sometimes it sounds like a great idea to protect impressionable minds from one thing or another. But the problem is, once you give someone the power to decide what you can see and what you can read and what you… Read More »
Caring for a Dead Turkey Dead turkeys make lousy pets. Did you know that a dead turkey requires more care than a living cat and almost as much care as a living dog? Cats are pretty good at almost any temperature that people are OK with — whereas dogs are a little more touchy. Dogs seem to do… Read More »
Both EB and I were online back in the early 90’s. In those now seemingly halcyon days, the Web was awash in really good free programs and email was still really cool. Sure, there were viruses and worms running amok on the Web but they weren’t nearly as advanced as today’s malware. As time went by, more and… Read More »
When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a young boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television; mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner and the feeling of love all around. I remember a gray, cold and cloudy day; the steamy windows that cooking made and snowflakes in the air. This was my best… Read More »
We are all, I think, a little bit crazy. We live our lives based on assumptions and insubstantial whims and hopes. We think that everything will always be as it is; we take no thought when we do everyday things that it may be the last time we ever do them. We get up in the morning and… Read More »