The Philosopher's Stone

My posts in the past day or two have prompted comments on a wide variety of topics, so here is an omnium gatherum of responses. To An...

In commenting on a post, Marcel Proust [if only!] offers this observation: “It has been roughly a quarter century since I last spent t...

When Susie and I moved to our retirement community apartment, we put up several bird feeders on the outside of the window in our sun room.  ...

One of the less fortunate side effects of living so much of my life in my head is that I tend to think that if I include a qualification i...

This morning I returned to an early morning walk, starting out before five a.m. but only doing two-thirds of my usual walk.  Yesterday, in l...

When I was a boy, I was a devoted Brooklyn Dodgers fan [the Giants seemed colorless, and the Yankees, in their pinstriped uniforms, struck m...

This  will give you a laugh.