I think I'm close to losing my mind! This never-ending snow-ice storm has kept me largely grounded in here since Friday. We have snow in all but one state, and the poor folks of Queensland in Australia are being flooded out. This on the already tragic anniversary of the Haiti earthquake which took the lives of over 250000 people. It seems we have a ( Read more... )

Day 06 - Your day, in great detail ( Read more... )

Wait, does such a state exist? Ah, I didn't really think so. Well then perhaps my quirky life is ok ( Read more... )

So today I began my quest to acquire these new hearing aids. In doing so, though, I encountered a bit of a problem. I'd been trying to contact my counselor at Division of Services for the blind for months now, as they'd told me that my case had been transferred. Once I finally got him to call me back though, he said I was still on record as working ( Read more... )

National Public Radio recently ran a story on the psychology of the silver medal. In a nutshell, they cited a study conducted by scientists at Cornell University that suggests that persons who win this tend to be less happy than either gold or bronze recipients. They played a snippet of a commedic sketch by Jerry Seinfeld in which he kind of ( Read more... )

NPR is doing a series this week on the coming down of the Berlin Wall, which happened 20 years ago today. My goodness, has it really been that long ( Read more... )

I chose this one, because it has some local flavor. I'd heard of it, and that it was supposedly a very good read. It's The Secret Life Of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.

South Carolina, 1964. Fourteen-year-old Lily rescues her African American housekeeper--and substitute mother--Rosaleen, from the hospital ( Read more... )

As most of you know by now, I enjoy listening to NPR. Particularly, I usually close my night by tuning in to Morning Edition and All Things Considered. It's an insane routine that I've clung to, I guess for comfort? consistency?, since 2002 ( Read more... )

But first, an addendim to my Ocean post. I heard an interesting bit on Here And Now about a robot glider that was set to "fly" from New Jersey to Spain. It's actually more like riding underwater using the Gulf Stream, and it's going to collect data and send it back to an on-shore lab as it makes its seven-month journey ( Read more... )

And since I've not yet had the chance to escape our atmosphere and visit outer Space, I suppose I've had to be content with the inner depths. That's right, the large body of water that makes up nearly 70% of the Earth's surface, and very likely made life possible on this planet ( Read more... )