Jan 12
Like many people these days, mine is an ex-tended family, with the hyphen, meaning that it includes exes. I know ex-tended families where the exes get along so well that at reunions there’s several sets of exes with their new spouses plus their exes, and all their kids, etc. all making up a considerable mob …
Jan 12
That jar of curry powder on my spice rack is not going to get replaced when it’s done. As a holiday present, my kids gave me a class in Indian cooking with Chef Vinita Jacinto, a professionally trained chef with decades of experience teaching Indian and similar cuisine. In a three-hour session at a demonstration …
Dec 26
Persimmons like these near St. Helena have the lovely habit of ripening in winter after the leaves fall off the tree. They’re good as ornaments, but they’re even better to eat. In our local market they go for 49 cents apiece.
Dec 24
Now that Putin has released Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of Pussy Riot, maybe this spirit of showy clemency will waft over to Israel and move Netanyahu to let Mordechai Vanunu hop the next plane out. Vanunu, the whistleblower who in 1985 revealed that Israel had built nuclear weapons, has suffered for his actions like Job …
Dec 23
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. So says a Pew Research poll done in late 2012. It finds that one out of five Americans of all ages today is religiously unaffiliated, up five per cent over the previous five years. In the under-30 …
Dec 20
The earth wobbles. Fortunately, it wobbles slowly and regularly. Tomorrow morning, December 21 2013, its axis stops tilting away from the sun and begins to tilt closer. Result: in the northern hemisphere, the days get a bit longer. In the southern hemisphere, the opposite. For folks on the equator, all the hoopla above and below …
Dec 19
Time magazine missed the boat when they put the Pope on the cover. The Pope is interesting but it’s too soon to say what effect his words will have on the real world. The man who really shook things up this year, worldwide, is Edward Snowden. Here’s my view of the cover that Time should …
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