It was a strange coincidence. Almost too weird. I was struck by the ominous nexus of the events: one imaginatively toying with humanity’s doom, and one quite literally overshadowing us with the fumes from Mt. Doom.
By yesterday, Saturday, March 28; Mt. Redoubt had erupted a number of times. Each time the prevailing winds arranged for [...]
I’ve had a number of big surprises in my life: life altering surprises. The good things in my life I almost always saw coming. I planned for those good things, I worked for them, and sacrificed to bring them to pass, and hung on with tenacious faith and prayer until my efforts bore fruit.
But the [...]
An interesting quirk of history came together on February 12th of this year: the 200th anniversary of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. I was delightfully entertained by Lincoln in February and procrastinated addressing the worthy Mr. Charles Darwin.
Several years ago, while visiting The Museum of Natural History in New York City, I [...]