Its a late spring cleaning time. Brian is going to pick up his mom (Dawn) on Thursday morning and bring her back for a few days. She will be staying from Thursday until Saturday when Bri’s brother Mike brings his family out for a mini-bbq and then take Dawn back home to York County. This  Read more »

THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MIND by Charles Freeman Why did Europe forsake the rational thought that dominated the Greco-Roman world for the Dark Ages? Charles Freeman, in this eminently readable history, offers an answer that continues to haunt us even today. For centuries, as Freeman explains, the Roman Empire sustained the rich Greek intellectual  Read more »

There is such a thing as too much patience.  For the last couple week the rasberries and blackberries have been reaching ripeness.  I was forcing myself to give them time to ripen.  This meant only picking the ones that were fully ripe each day.  At first we only had a few per day.  After a  Read more »

From the last paragraph of an article about Michael Moore in the San Francisco Chronicle. Films continue to be his passion, and Moore already is mulling over his next one. “It may be on the inequities of the health system or the fact that we only have 40 or 50 years worth of oil under  Read more »

This post in the the LJ Community is worth taking a look at – but beware – frustration abounds.