I recently came to the sad conclusion that I must give up eating chocolate. In all its forms. Entirely. That’s a whole food group kicked out of my diet. Because I tended to overindulge, and it started making me sick. I won’t go into detail. Let me just say that the consequences of eating chocolate [...]
Dec 172009
Since creating a star — even a little bitty one — was somewhat draining, I went back to creating planets in our solar system. Here they are (some of them, anyway).
Sep 132009
I have a friend who studied history and languages and women’s studies while I was studying zoology and mammalogy and ornithology and a whole bunch of other ologies relative to wildlife. We often trade books back and forth. Although we both like some of the same science fiction titles, our tastes in non-fiction don’t line [...]
Aug 302009
They were the very first hybrid sport utility transportation. Mules. That’s what I’m talking about. To a lot of people, mules represent the best possible example of that beast we call hybrid. And although it’s true they can’t reproduce like us — and the birds and the bees — they can be cloned. It seems [...]
So this week I decided to do some experiments with my watercolors. The results look like something a juvenile orangutan might paint. But that’s immaterial. Juvenile orangutans probably have a completely different creative motivation than I do, but I can only speak for myself, and the reason I made this series of messes was to [...]
Feb 282009
I’m no psychologist. But I wonder, what if it’s a holdover from much earlier, less settled times in human history, when it might have made sense to gather and hang on to portable, edible items? Hmm. This is completely unscientific, of course, but if you do a web search, you’ll find that websites with the [...]