#FridayFive: Ducks January 31st, 2014 @ 5:54 am PDT
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On Mystery January 30th, 2014 @ 6:39 am PDT
One thing is that I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs, in different degrees of certainty, about different things. But I’m not absolutely sure of anything and […]
The 1973 National Personnel Records Center Fire January 27th, 2014 @ 6:38 am PDT
A few weeks ago I did a little web searching on a mission to see if it would be possible to acquire duplicates of any or all of my grandfather’s service medals. He fought as a member of Merrill’s Marauders in the Pacific Theater in WWII and I know he had been awarded (at least) […]
Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham January 25th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm PDT
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965
#FridayFive: Teenage Wasteland January 24th, 2014 @ 7:49 am PDT
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Vegas, Baby January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:34 am PDT
On creativity January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:06 am PDT
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
Roger and Elaine January 21st, 2014 @ 7:15 am PDT
On men and women
Prohibition! January 17th, 2014 @ 5:36 am PDT
It’s the 94th birthday of Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, took effect on this date in 1920, a year after it was ratified. Congress passed the Act even though President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed it. It made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal. It took almost 14 years before the 21st […]
