Okay, so this was the riddle I made up: “What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go… Read More »Pavlov’s Dog

What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go nowhere and at the same time go anywhere imaginable?

On Wednesday, September 22, planet Earth wasn’t tilted toward the sun, or away from it. Our spinning blue marble was straight up on its axis… Read More »Thinking about Equality

Deep in the Mt. Hood Wilderness, miles from the nearest road, we came upon a pile of sticks heaped inside an unused fire ring. On… Read More »The physics of light

I’m home from a 70-mile trek on the Pacific Crest Trail—outstanding in so many ways, number one being the time to do it (I live… Read More »Big foot/yeti

John Muir famously said, “The mountains are calling and I must go.” Gandhi offered this advice: “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”… Read More »Listening Carefully

You’d think that after 47 years of marriage, Debbie and I would know all that there is to know about each other. (Maybe, at times,… Read More »Double duty

My grandson Griffin—age 5 and in my humble opinion the most wonderful grandson of all time—gave me a Thomas the Train for my birthday. On… Read More »Thomas & thomas

When I read a novel, I know that I’m engaged in a vicarious experience—I get to witness from a safe distance as the characters are… Read More »Hopefully

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time (too much?) thinking about the future: planning, projecting, then revising those plans and projections. Do… Read More »Cranes May not be at Lake