This Week in COVID

Here is Dr. Klotman’s Week 136 update on the COVID pandemic. COVID concerns have faded into the background for now. I go to the store, […]

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Home Alone

Susan has gone to Omaha to dispatch some of her parental duties while also visiting with the granddaughters. I am, for lack of a better […]

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Nigiri & Sashimi

Susan has gone to Omaha for a few days. The cats and I have been left to our own devices. I decided that Sashimi (raw […]

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Today in Butterflies

Yesterday evening, I went to the backyard observatory to open it up for a night of astrophotography. On the way there, I noticed that the […]

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Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace’s 2004 essay of this title was republished in 2005 as a book of essays under the same title. The lobster essay described […]

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If you prick us do we not bleed?

It’s a line from Shakespear’s Merchant of Venice. I thought of it yesterday afternoon when I got a Tdap vaccine (Tetanus, Diphtheria, acellular Pertussis) during […]

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Let me out!

You may recognize the phrase from the Queen and David Bowie collaboration, “Under Pressure.” The passage goes: That’s the terror of knowingWhat this world is […]

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Storming

We had a thunderstorm tonight. Perhaps you did as well. As it began, I went out to the back porch to appreciate it. Susan joined […]

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Every Now and Then

There are both formal and informal intervals of time. Femtoseconds, picoseconds, microseconds, milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and so forth are all well-defined – […]

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All Aflutter

This afternoon the mistflower attracted four Monarch butterflies, as many Queens, and lots of bees.

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