NOTE: Normally I don’t watch late-night TV. That’s less from snobbery than the fact that normally I’m asleep by then. But I make an exception when the January 6 Committee show runs til almost midnight. (Full disclosure: I didn’t watch those late shows last night either. But the New York Times did, as a special … Continue reading Highlights from a Jan. 6 Late-Night
#1— I went out Wednesday to get some groceries, and when I turned toward the garden, a small yellowish blur flitted past me and landed on a plant nearby. I recognized it, and out came the phone/camera. It was a Skipper butterfly, probably of the “Fiery Skipper” variety. The camera’s zoom lens worked fine. Usually … Continue reading Two Amazing Sights Today!
Introduction: Pentler’s Folly If you ever want to rile up a Friends meeting, here’s a simple recipe: Leave them a lot of money in your will, but with no instructions about what to do with it. It’s a sure thing: the meeting will spend years haggling over what to do with all that worldly wealth. … Continue reading Holiday Weekend Stories: His Eye Is On The Sparrow
[NOTE: It’s 200 miles south from my place to Myrtle Beach. I wish it was farther. They’ve been moving north.] Alligator Fatally Attacks Man at the Edge of a South Carolina Pond Such attacks are rare in the United States, typically occurring about once a year, but the latest one on Friday was the second … Continue reading Gators Are Comin’! And They Aren’t Kidding
From the far out West, up against the curling, capricious lip of the Pacific, comes a dispatch from our Coastal Ocean & Fire Correspondent, Mitchell Santine Gould. With it is a stunning animated setting of Stanza 5 from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, a keystone of the poet’s classic Leaves of Grass. Mitch is a … Continue reading Video Treat of the Week: “Song of Myself,” Stanza 5