woody's world

She left the office late one night, a good feeling of a job well done. On the way to the parking lot on a fairly dark path she had the disti...

Humans are capable of the most despicable and degraded behavior imaginable. Hate some ethnic group? Hate some religions? Hate some lifestyle...

Those few words started something. A grad school buddy sang a few songs in Spanish and with these words began a quest to learn to play and ...

In around 1920, Hal Search, my father, entered the Milwaukee School of Engineering and promptly joined the band. The third from the left, b...

Have you ever seen such angelic young men? Did you notice the tiny smiles, like they know something nobody else knows? They did. They knew ...

The Abandoned Plymouth: When I last spoke I had just embarrassed a future King of Reptiles after a trip to the ‘glades. On that same trip t...

The indigo snake ( Drymarchon corais ) hunt, or, why do you find an orange krait ( Bungaris aurantiacus taeniatus ) in the everglades? Good...

These words are often used to demean or otherwise attack someone: “He is probably a card-carrying member of the ACLU.” And that is bad? Con...

There must be some good news, she said. Well, there is. This is the most gorgeous spring in a long time. A riot of blooming things: trees, ...

A while ago I wrote an essay about something and mentioned “remembering the future” somewhere. As ‘Woody 7.0” gets close thoughts of a trun...