The Changing Seasons: July 2020 It’s not just about pictures anymore. It’s about energy … finding enough of it to actually take pictures which look exactly like the pictures you took last month because you are still at home, so the… Read More ›
Month: July 2020
EL DUQUE, DOG OF DAWGZ
I finally got some reasonably good pictures of El Duque. We were outside on the deck and I had to cajole him to stop hiding in the plants and show his handsome jowls. So here’s the Duke, in all his… Read More ›
ALL THE REST OF THE SQUARES
ALL THE REST OF MY SQUARE PERSPECTIVES It’s the end of the month, so here are square pictures of all the various things I’ve taken square pictures of through the years and months. I’ll be back for the next square… Read More ›
BIRDS AND BUSHES
Racket had gotten out of his cage. Nothing unusual about that, except that usually when I let him loose, I’d make sure to put away anything I cared about to avoid having Racket destroy it. It was futile but I… Read More ›
PEACE TALKS – HARRY DRESDEN IS FINALLY BACK! – by JIM BUTCHER
I looked it up. I have waited six years for book sixteen in the Harry Dresden world to be published. I have waited patiently, then less patiently. A few months ago, there was a book by Jim Butcher called (tada!)… Read More ›
WHO ARE YOU NOW? DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE SOMEONE?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #80 From Fandango, a deep, philosophical question. We need some of those because everything else is about disease or the news. “I saw this question on a site that offers up a bunch of “deep, philosophical” questions and… Read More ›
DOOMSDAY BOOK BY CONNIE WILLIS
I read this for the first time when it was first published in 2008. It wasn’t available as an audible book yet, though it would be soon. So my first reading was words on paper. It’s the story of the… Read More ›
TAKE SOME TIME TO REVIVE IT
A view of America from Chicago, the band, by Rich Paschall Chicago has been around for a long time. No, I don’t mean the city, I mean the band. In 1967, five guys from DePaul University recruited a sixth from… Read More ›
BITTER ROOTS
I am named after an aunt I never met. In my version of Jewish family, you don’t name babies after living people. Only after those who have passed. This is not true in all Jewish families. It depends on where… Read More ›
THE FREEDOM TO BE SELFISH – BY ELLIN CURLEY
So what is the problem with the anti-maskers? I understand that many of them believe that the entire Coronavirus is a hoax or a greatly exaggerated hype to sully Trump’s sterling reputation and political fortunes. But why are they arguing… Read More ›
LETTER TO AN OVERSEAS FRIEND – LIFE IN THE CRAZY ZONE
Bonnie passed at the beginning of June. We were doing what we swore we would NOT do, which was keeping her alive when it was obvious that she was really gone. At least she was (mostly) physically healthy until the… Read More ›
HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE
MOSTLY HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE If nothing else, this pause in space and time has given me good reasons to go back through my downloads. I have an awful lot of downloads that are just sitting on… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 