I spent a lot of time playing Minecraft with my nephews and sisters-in-law over the past few days. Here we see me speeding toward the house build by one of my sisters, Jackie, as the sun rises over the house. The railroad was the product of another sister, Jolene, who […]
We are headed south to Oshkosh. We should arrive around 6pm. It is pleasant but overcast today, and we seem to have left the heaviest part of the active snowfall.
We could see the bottom of the whirlpool all black with sand and mud, and the men were at their wit’s ends for fear. Homer, “The Odyssey”, Book XII In our book, “Reality in the Shadows,” Jim Gates, Frank Blitzer and I revisit the first time human set eyes on […]
The Voyager probe looks back on our planet, so many decades ago. Our whole civilization, and all the wonders and terrors it has wrought, clinging to a pale blue ornament that hangs, lit by its parent star, nearly alone in the void.
We arrived in Park Falls about an hour ago. It was slow going once we hit the snow, but we got here safe and sound.