Keeping Your Head in (All) the Game(s)

Tomorrow is September tenth two thousand and eleven, at thirteen minutes and fourteen seconds past noon tomorrow it will be: 9/10/11 12:1...

Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) Land of Oz Neverland (Disney's not Jackson's) Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin) Hogwart's (Maraud...

Today's story starts at the Oaks card club but this is not a poker story. The card room is just the setting for part one of my tale. The...

While listening to a rock&talk radio show on one of my drives around northern california, I heard a question that seemed too simple to h...

Something familiar,  Something peculiar,  Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns; Bring on t...

Since deciding to exercise more I have been experiencing some minor leg cramps; charley horses usually at night. Now we all know that a hea...

Let's call this a topical picture dump for this month. I offer these without comment either from the Humane Society or the proprietors ...

I came across a piece of history recently, a certificate from the U.S. War Department dated 6 August 1945 and signed by the Secretary of Wa...

I was up just after dawn this morning, not my usual rising time but when a large black critter decides he wants breakfast and you are the o...

We are in the waning months of the Chinese Year of the Tiger, which ends February 2, 2011. The tiger is the largest of the earth's felin...

I'm going to go by the numbers for the next week or so. Back in the 90s, when I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation, I was working with quali...

About six weeks ago I slept for the first time in the Berkeley apartment, I noticed that first night the sun was setting just a degree or t...

It has been a very, very long time since I have had a bout with insomnia. If fact, one of the true pleasures of my life is the adoring relat...

Observation: Machinery to be operated first thing in the morning, by people of foul temper, jonesing for their first fix; these appariti nee...

The picture above is of a 'device', which is apparently used to assist in the application of a condom. Also apparently this task h...