Category: Essays

When the first asteroids were discovered, in the early 19th century, most of them were named for female deities. There are not nearly enough female deities to m...

In 2011, I visited Paris and blogged about it. This page contains all the posts from that old blog. (Regarding pedestrianism and Paris: In 2018 I sold my car, a...

This winter a friend told me that in my red-and-black winter jacket and my mask, I looked like a bird. I made up a common name for the kind of bird I am and the...

I got to see the moon today. The winter has been cloudy, and I was looking forward to an evening walk under a rising and nearly full moon, but when I went out, ...

I didn’t know the song “Ding Dong! Merrily on High” until about 25 years ago, when I heard it at a holiday concert at my sons’ high scho...

Note: I wrote this in September 2004. I’ve been to every Lotus Festival since then; even this year, I’m watching the festival online. I thought I...

928 Easy St.: The hostas are to die for. However, some of them have little plastic clips on them that smell vaguely of garlic. Not a big deal, but watch out so ...

Memory has reasons that reason knows not (although sometimes reason can figure them out after the fact). Years ago I tried to recall the name of a place in my h...