If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

  Winter continues...and continues and continues.  Come on, Big G, it's almost April!  I suppose I should make some snarky comment about...

  T he cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten" Till he stirs a little and begins to purr-- He doesn't wake. Today out on the limb...

Approaching Two Harbors, Catalina Island.   Will spring never come?  What a winter this has been, in so many ways.  I can't wait to put ...

Formulaic description of Hebbian learning. The other day, I mentioned I have an ancestor named William Hebb.  I was wondering why that name ...

 I've been getting back in shape for the last fortnight or so, starting gingerly negotiating the stairs, as I mentioned earlier, gradual...

  How do you survive a complete and utter loss of hope?  Where do you live? Park Place, Main Street, Lake Shore Drive, Mulberry Lane, Lennox...

I was listening -- okay, trying to listen --  to some pop songs people liked a lot that I found posted on some website, things like "Ca...

 I managed the stairs the other day, stiff-legged with my bum knee in a brace, and walked outside for a while to enjoy some fresh air.  It...

  "People can die before their deaths and go to hell."     I am here, I am frightened and I am alone. And I don't know what to...

 I post so many pop ditties that you may think that is the only type of tune I like.  Not so.   Here is one of my favorites that I listen to...

 Look at the date on this major story (it took up about 15 percent of the whole magazine) in Life magazine:  November 18, 1945.  World War ...

I was talking with my mother about the fate of the women I helped train when I was in Afghanistan, one of whom I have heard has been hanged ...

 I took the Raven Matrices IQ test on line and this is my result.   *Blows on nails, buffs on sleeve.* Actually, I'm skeptical of that f...

When I was staying at the line shack I found, as I mentioned, some tools that I had no idea what were.  I took photos of them to ask about w...

It's a pretty grim world out there. Each day brings some new incomprehensible horror.  Has the world gone mad?  I don't understand w...

These days, sitting in my straight-backed chair waiting for my bones to knit, often just staring at the floor when I get tired of looking ou...