Wandering Hither and Yon

We’ve turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating clown food, watching clown shows. We’ve become a nation of cringing, craven fuckups.” – James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency Would someone please just pass me the goddamn nachos … Please ?

While we were waiting to pick up our pizza, my nephew, age 11, told me how it must suck to have a birthday so close to Christmas. Yup, I agreed, you’d think Jesus, being the Son of God and all, would have planned better.

I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure [...]

This past August, one of the most prestigous awards in mathematics, The Fields Medal, was given to a Russian Mathematician, Grigori Perelman, for his solution for the mathematical problem known as the Poincare Conjecture . This story captured attention of the news media, partly for the intellectual achievement it represented, but more so because the [...]

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About a year ago, when I took Katrina to be put to sleep, I learned that you can save 20 bucks if you choose the “Random Bag of Dead Dogs” option. See, when you go up to the front desk of your vet’s office, the receptionist, who knows you and knows why you are there [...]

The universe is trying to tell me something, and it’s trying to tell me with rabbits. Yesterday morning, Keiko and I were walking around our property when a small gray rabbit crossed our path and ran beneath a fence and into some brush. I was happy, because I’m always happy when I see rabbits around [...]

“Once in great while, however, the right person is fortunate enough to get the right dog, to have the time to take care of it, to connect with it in a profound way. It takes a confluence of luck and timing, being at a particular point in life that coincides with the nature, breeding, and [...]