5/24/2023 O is for Observation
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a pre-telescope Danish astronomer who looked at the sky more precisely than anyone before him had done. He was obsessively careful about measuring what he saw and he studied the sky every night he could. To accomplish what he wanted he reinvented and fine-tuned the sky-gauging tools of his era – sextant and quadrant.
If you haven’t read yesterday’s comments, go back to read some wonderful memories of peoples’ aunts and “aunts”.
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5/13/2023
Reprint of old column from 5/22/2004
Happy Mother's Day to all the women who raised us!
5/3/2023
I will bet you real money I am the only person who will compare the 2022 movie "Nope" directed by Jordan Peele with the novel "The Yoga of Max’s Discontent" by Karan Bajaj.
4/26/2023
What makes a lady a Lady?
In December 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts (50 miles southwest of Boston) Deborah Sampson, descendant of Mayflower pilgrims, was born. Little Deborah’s life was going to be tough but she would prevail with strength and imagination.
4/18/2023
Long before ladders were about partners terrifying their partners to clean the gutters, ladders were about defense, religion, and honey.
As most of you know, we are writing up the alphabet. You suggest and I mull. (Mulled whine?) Kittens and Kites were suggested for the letter K.
4/4/2023
I walk a lot; I laugh a lot and make other people laugh fairly often. I can water plants on a high shelf and carry laundry down two flights of stairs and pick up fairly heavy boxes to move from here to there. But boy oh boy, one thing I do not do is - I don’t Jump.
Except … maybe?
