Our family is in our birthday season.  Tonight we celebrate two birthdays: our son’s and our granddaughter’s.  Dinner is at our place ( Read more... )

So, today, was supposed to be the day of my knee surgery.  I am taking a breath, remembering all the long months of waiting for this day to come. Phooey ( Read more... )

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“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.”  Steven Johnson, Wall Street Journal essay called the “Genius of the Tinkerer.”

I just read an article in Popular Mechanics, The Art of Staying Alive, that had the above quote. ( Read more... )

Gosh, how do I do this? Was up at 4am and normally would jump on FB. Instead I worked on my links list on my LiveJournal page. Some of the old ones are so out of date, but some, like National Geographic and Science Daily News are still going and I so enjoyed reading articles there ( Read more... )

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Saw Orthopedist today. First they took some X-rays. When the doctor came in, we talked, then he did an exam and then he brought up the MRI and Xrays on the big computer screen ( Read more... )