Monthly Archives: December 2018

About 120 people showed up for Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s recent town hall, his first since losing his U.S. Senate race. The Texas Democrat then went home to live-stream himself cooking a chicken dinner with his wife, daughter and their pet … Continue reading →

Discover your curiosity type — are you an artist, inventor, explorer or scientist? Take the quiz. I took this three-minute curiosity quiz from the Encyclopedia Britannica this morning, and surprise, surprise, I turned out to be a scientist type. It … Continue reading →

This is a repeat of a 2011 post I came across as I was cleaning up my website:   To be truly happy we need to focus on quality – on the region of overlap.To be truly happy, we need … Continue reading →

There are few things in life more wonderful than knowing where you want to go and being on the path to getting there. –Earnie Larsen I spent a lot more time today immersing myself in my site cleanup, and I … Continue reading →

This is a partial repeat of the 2008 post Can We Really Learn to Love the Weeds? I came across it today while cleaning up a big mess caused by a hacker to my hosting site. It seems very appropriate! … Continue reading →

The talk of dogs and snow reminds me of an incident over 50 years ago. For the first three years we were at Cornell we didn’t own a car, so one day after a snow I was walking back to … Continue reading →

No doubt about it, this pup is smarter than I am! December 5, 2018  

I love snow — when I’m snugly inside looking out. 🙂 December 4, 2018  

It was cold and snowy here yesterday. Rummuser says he’s also having winter in Pune. Here are the forecasts for him in Fahrenheit and Celcius: That’s quite a difference! I’m guessing neither one of us would trade with the other. … Continue reading →

On Jan. 20, 1993, I entered the Oval Office for the first time as president. As is the tradition, waiting for me was a note from my predecessor, George Herbert Walker Bush. It read: Dear Bill, When I walked into … Continue reading →