Thanks to today’s internet of all things and Google’s ability to sort through billions of key words, it’s possible to follow the life of a person known only in one’s youth to the end of their natural life. That is, provided the person is had enough achievements worth recording in print, and eventually, digitally. It … More Digital Time Travel
Since high school I have always read science fiction. I was partial to the short stories by scientists like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. I often read them while soaking for hours in a warm bath, in between doing assigned reading for school. Perhaps it helped me to float away into other … More Travel to the Future: Why I read science fiction
George Floyd and George Floyd Square have become known since 2020 in many parts of the world. Floyd’s torture and pointless death at the hands and knee of a now convicted police officer have revitalized the movement against discriminatory and ham-fisted police brutality—not just in Minneapolis, but in towns and cities across the country. George … More Time Travel: 100 Flowers to George Floyd Square
I love serendipity. A few days ago, at the one-year anniversary of the latest world pandemic, I stopped by the Little Free Library that I got installed when we first moved into our townhouse nine years ago. It is easy to reach now, because most of the snow has melted. I picked out a book … More I Love Serendipity!
I, like most of you readers right now, am “sheltering in place” for some time because of the coronavirus pandemic. For my husband Phil and me it’s been 2 weeks since we abruptly aborted our planned one-month road trip and drove back home to Minneapolis. Since we are over 65, our children worry about us … More Visiting the Republic of Heaven
Other states, other lives, other souls 