Thursday, August 13, 2009

Death: A dream and a meeting

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The other week I had a vivid dream that showed me my death in the future. The landscape was solid white and disappeared over the horizon. Th...
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Lies and damn lies

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"Lie" : An act or instance of lying; a false statement made with intent to deceive (OED). "Damn lie": An act of repeatin...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste" *

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She was a pretty girl with a great personality and bright future. But she had been kept in a cruel prison for most of her life. She didn...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

A tale of the "Hose Nose"

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Ever notice how among friends insults become indicators of affection or respect? Like black people calling each other the "N" word...

On cooking supper

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NPR again. Many American spends 2 hours or more a day watching cooking programs and 30 minutes preparing, cooking,serving and cleaning up fo...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

New technologies and dinosaurs

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Many years I wrote this: Paleolithic (or something like that): Since the dawn of our existence a long time ago we've learned the use of...

Blaming Obama

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I am getting really tired of conservatives of all stripes and some of my old friends who fit that description blaming the Obama administrati...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

On outliving a child. A different perspective

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(the source for the somewhat modified scenario below is an NPR program on Autism) She sat with her head in her hands and said "What wou...
Friday, July 31, 2009

What's the difference between a piss-ant, a psocid and us?

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We were lying on our backs in a too-big bed (it was a king, we are comfortable in a double), the window AC was on (it was 90+ outside and th...

the hardest thing I have ever done

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Until the next time. Did you ever begin something by thinking " this is (is going to be) the hardest thing I have ever done in my l...