Today is the atumnal equinox. Say it–ah TUM nal… kinda rolls off the tongue. …when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, this year cacluated to be at 8:04 pm, EDT, and day and night are of equal length. Today the sun begins the journey south to mark the winter solstice, the shortest day of the…
Category: Musing
RABBIT HOLES
I read. I have ‘free’ accounts to many a news website. More than the articles I like the comments section. It’s like a self-selected virtual town square where you can sit back gauge the temperature of the room. Beware, you go into that room, you lose track of time. Recently I signed up for the…
Human Traits
Ralph, on the top step, shown here with Claudia, was our first dog. We lived in an apartment near Cranbury NJ and we found this six month old puppy at the local pet store. Fluffy, fuzzy and kinda lost he was ours within minutes. Both Tom and I worked so Ralph was crated during the…
QUIET
We’ve been having a lot of rain. Reminds me of Richard Harris as King Arthur in his singing/saying way, ‘the rain may never fall till after midnight, by eight, the morning fog must disappear….I know it gives a person pause, but in Camelot, those are the legal laws…’ sadly, in North Carolina the rain pours usually between…
STEP ONE
My dad was the most organized person I knew. I learned early on what being organized meant. To dad it wasn’t ‘go clean your room.’ It was ‘make your bed, pick up your toys, put your clothes in the hamper’. Steps! In grad school at Pepperdine I first learned the PERT or Performance Evaluation Review…