woody's world

I thought the other day about grilling a piece of fresh, wild caught salmon. That brought me back to the signature event in salmon cooking....

“Life is too short to miss the sunsets, love and good wine.” I just sent that thought out to a friend, and immediately got to wonder if all...

Ever since anthropologists accepted the Neanderthal as functionally human the controversy continues. By “functionally human” I mean genetic...

You know the stuff that the black top roads are made of? That is Bitumen. Hard as a rock, heat and weather resistant, ri...

I just finished teaching 4 Anatomy and Physiology labs, 2 Wednesday and 2 today (Thursday). The students were a delight to be around. Ea...

A friend and I were talking and I mentioned that I was once headed for seminary. She knows I am an atheist, or minimally an agnostic, and a...

Thirty three years ago he killed a policeman during a traffic stop. No argument. The crime took place in 1978 and the conviction in 1981. A...

I was driving this morning listening to a PRI program on Science and Spirituality and was held in rapt attention by Diana Beresford-Kroeger...

Use the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem for God’s mailbox. That what Charlie Crist (1) has done for years, and takes credit for the hurrican...

Next week the new term starts for me. Four classes, all labs. And I am waiting for “The Dream”. It comes in a few variants, but always h...