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On the first of this month, it was snowing and I was stuck inside, so I cooked up a storm.  It looks like spring is finally here -- just in ...

I love Neil deGrasse Tyson .  He is smart and funny and not stuck in the all-too-stuffy world of academicians who are more impressed with th...

Angola is the only maximum-security prison in the Louisiana State Penitentiary system, and is the largest maximum-security facility in the c...

"Against the wind, I'm still running against the wind.  I'm older now, but still running against the wind."   -- Bob Sege...

Date Night is good for some cheap rom-com laughs, but it's a pretty ridiculous story that really only two actors as gifted as Steve Car...

S got us tickets to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Mountain Film Festival (there is also a book festival and photo contes...

As part of our postal book club rotation, I read The Unspeakable . It's a collection of essays which are supposedly not autobiographic...

S and I attended our last two symphonies of the season.  The second-to-last was a strange combination of pieces that I still haven't qui...

I recently heard Richard Blumenthal being interviewed on Morning Edition.   The subject was the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica “scandal”...

I have been wanting to see Pitch Perfect for some time, and S indulged me and we watched it a week ago. This may be a thing you don't...