Tonight, it was a Sous vide petite fillet mignon with blue cheese cream sauce and a side of borracho beans. The beans were a bit […]
Read MoreWe May Need New Archetypes
It was the Spring of 1965. I was sitting in Mrs. Houston’s English Literature class. Mrs. Houston was in her 30s, married to a Houston […]
Read MoreThis 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, […]
Read MoreHome 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 […]
Read MoreNigiri & 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 […]
Read MoreToday 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 […]
Read MoreConsider 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 […]
Read MoreIf 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 […]
Read MoreLet 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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