Ghulf Genes

Sunday last we saw our favorite butterfly for the first time, the Black Swallowtail, feeding in all leisure off the blooms of a rather curi...

At my birth in 1936 in Hungary the country already had 30 years of experience with a nationalized health care system, founded in 1907. That...

It is that time of year again—when Maples rain their seeds ( link ). At our new house we have two maples in quite close proximity, growin...

The Self-Driving Car (SDC) shows an interesting aspect of Technology—namely that it seems to have a mind of its own and operates in a Self-...

Thoughts about the coherence of culture arose yesterday as a subject of our morning conversation. Put another way, is there anything resemb...

The Business Pages these days tend to focus on Mergers & Acquisition, Finance, Mobile Devices, and that sector of Internet business rep...

A central feature of our backyard is a Pyrus calleryana , commonly known as a Callery Pear, its most widespread variety being the Bradfo...

Yesterday, just past noon, an earthquake measured at 4.2 magnitude took place near Galesburg, MI. Its center was three miles underground. No...

Strange how a phrase with quite profound meanings can arise from a fairly common experience  when it is expressed in high compression as a ...

According to the Wall Street Journal this morning, the Art Institute of Chicago has received art valued at $500 million. The donors are St...

As our plants experience it, the inclement season is almost over. Virtually every year they “go out” on May 5; “coming in” is more variable...

Brigitte found a fascinating article yesterday centered on the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany—a place where she once worked before she an...

Last summer’s westward move had so severely tested my powers that at the end I simply failed in strength and in determination to move the s...

I keep losing the slips on which I jot words while I am reading in bed—and hence don’t have a thick dictionary within my reach. The current ...

I was exactly three months old when FDR gave a speech of which I reproduce a segment here. I found the speech easily when I searched Google...

April does not want to get going around here. My desktop PC has been  home but has also gone back to the doctor again for further therapies....

An odd dream of black Mormon women controlling the Postal Service from the Moon wakes me this morning. The New York Times is, of course, “...

I got to wondering why on this blog I’ve not yet done the pedantic sort of earnest thing I’m apt to do, namely to explain how April Fool’s ...

March ends in snow lightly coating Just the grass where big flakes sag with Disappointment and half-live blades Of last year’s growth...

I’m reading again a book which was completed in 1899. At least I presume that was the year because the book, William James’ The Varieties o...