I ran across what might be the most fun news story of the day. Scientists have apparently discovered the fossil of (language fans beware) a miniature mammoth. Previously, I always wanted some kind of very large cat (perhaps a Maine Coon or Mokave, as it would be fun to have a 25 pound feline. Now? I kinda want a mini mammoth. Damn their extinction.
I’m realizing just what a role motion plays in our lives.When we first brought my daughter home, she didn’t move all that much. The occasional stretching, yes, but not more. Soon, she began to flail a little bit. Then she got more playful. The more …
When I entered college, I tried to become a fiction writer. I took a creative writing class at my community college…and everyone in it was tremendously unsupportive. I tried writing on my own, but as a brief overview of the abandoned drafts would at…
he “has always been certain of everything.Even when he’s totally wrong”–Neal StephensonI have been listening to music for as long as I can remember. I have been playing music since I was 11, guitar specifically since 14. I now how to manipulate my ins…
I’m a guitar player, so I can tell you honestly the first thing you need to know about guitar players: we’re weird.To get to be good at guitar, you have to practice. If you play a guitar-centric form of music (as do I) and if you have clutzy fingers …
When I bought my first car (it was really the second one I drove, but since the first one was really my dad’s, and I wrecked it after a month, it doesn’t really count), it came with its original radio. This was a problem, because the car was a 1973 Ply…
I’ve been thinking lately of out of body experiences…and what makes me think of them is not psychic Soviet spies (which would, it should be stated, be very cool indeed). Instead, I think of sickness and stress.When I was a grad student, I had use of …
I had several weird dreams last night. I dreamed I was in a cooking competition and won after I invented Spaghetti Pizza. Then my wife and I were walking around malls and talking about moving, but when we got to our place, we realized we only had two d…
My parents tell me I always liked to read. As a kid, long before I could actually read, I would be sitting on the couch, thumbing through a book, staring intently at the pages. When my mom would ask me what I was doing, I would tell her I was “reading….
One of the many changes having a child in the house has caused is the conscious effort I have to make to not have a television playing. Lest you get the idea that I ever had an array of “afternoon programs,” let me assure you I did not. But backgroun…
