All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~~ Galileo The principle is true, really, that you find what you look for. The principle that I have struggled with most of all is being assertive in the seeking. What is it that…
…as I drove to work today, fighting the usual panic amidst the doom of traffic, I thought about where I worked. Really, really thought about it. And you know what? I really enjoy my job. I love the environment in which I teach in now. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my…
Driving home from the city last night we saw something most spectacular. All three of us saw it at the same time: a bright luminescent green shooting star went streaking across the sky from east to west in a delicate arc. It shot slowly. Bright at first, as always, and…
So it’s like this… I’ve had vertigo. I seriously had vertigo. The kind of sickness that people joke about. This is the sickness that, when I was a receptionist for a general contractor, we fired a guy for lying about having. He was really home watching soap operas in his…
When I first began my blog it was because my friend Andrew suggested I start one. I thought that I might write a little something every once in a while, maybe link to something I thought was interesting… I had no idea it would become this. I am still not…
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately… and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~~ Thoreau, Walden I’ve written about Walden Pond before. And I’ve been inspired to…
