If it swims like a duck

More hand wringing, perhaps, but this is one of those things that constantly bugs me and I can do absolutely nothing about it. So in order to let you glimpse another bit of my neurosis, I give you: Our Arctic ice is melting. There, I said it. I’m surrounded by people that insist there is […]

Spokes, man!

So I was reading Boing, Boing, as I do sometimes, and came across their post about guys on bicycles that sharpen knives. Now, that’s cool enough in itself, but somebody named Richard wrote in with this little bit: There’s a fellow named Chuck that lives at the end of Zion Road in Gambier, OH. He’s […]

The weather? I wouldn’t bet on it

It is now “winter” here, as it is in much of the northern hemisphere. Only “here” is kinda quirky. It has not snowed in our town during my kids’ lifetimes. It has iced or sleeted like two, three times tops in the last ten years. Every year or two, some weather system heads our way […]