My Own Thoughts

R and I talked about our move last January and decided we would not attempt it. Then in March, having talked to graduate students at uni, I called and said, “Please!” He told me to go ahead and apply. I didn’t even get an interview. My mother died last summer, during the time I would [...]

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This is not all that I did. I went endlessly shopping for things that should have been simple. Scrubbed floors with a sponge on my hands and knees. Cleaned both bathrooms. Hung out with friends. Read a book. Did some work on my chapter. But this is the basic idea: I drove in last Tuesday [...]

The Beer Archaeologist 2nd C BC tomb, Thracian, from Bulgaria

63,000 Paintings now online Julie Kenward, beautiful photography

I have taken a total of 20 boxes of books to the library. I plan to downsize 30, so I need to come up with ten more to get rid of. (Btw, I learned that 25 book boxes weigh 700 pounds. Wow. If I really have 100 I may be seriously in trouble. I haven’t [...]

June 21: head to town for closing -pack stuff for a 10 day stay at the house -take a truck load of stuff (office stuff or other? I won’t have an office, so maybe not office… Take what?) June 22: closing -electricity and gas accounts opened -water needs to be signed, notarized, and faxed back [...]

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Closing date Okay, I get why the date is changing or trying to be changed for the closing. Yes, we said before July 14 originally and you wanted June 22. Okay. We’re fine with that. Looking back, that is actually better. Then you wanted to close June 7. We’re okay with that, too, even though [...]

A federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony. … The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by Christa and Danny Schultz. Their son is among those scheduled to participate in Saturday’s graduation ceremony. The judge declared that the Schultz family and their [...]

Steven Pinker is currently working on a book about the decline of violence through human history. We like to think that we are living in a very violent time, that the future looks dark. But the data says that violence has declined every millennium, every century, every decade. The reduction in cruelty is just astounding. [...]

Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Have Held Giant Fish Tank | Archaeology & Shipwrecks | Ancient Trade of Live Fish | LiveScience An ancient Roman shipwreck nearly 2,000 years old may once have held an aquarium onboard capable of carrying live fish, archaeologists suggest. … Curiously, its hull possessed a unique feature — near its keel [...]

Inside the Brain: A Journey Through Time It is beautiful, but not good. Here, an image taken from the brain of a patient who suffered a stroke in the thalamus and midbrain, resulting in damage to certain axons (some are visible at the bottom of the image).

Divorce Plagues Kids’ Social, Academic Lives for Years: once divorce proceedings began, children fell behind and failed to catch up for at least two years.

Today is the “cleaning out, donating, and decluttering the least-used-shelves in the kitchen” day. I think I need alcohol for this. And I rarely drink. Unfortunately when I decided to do the “not used kitchen shelves” I saw/remembered most of our entertaining stuff is there so I decided I had to pull out all the [...]

The results, the history, those most impacted, and the explanation are available at Political Calculations. It’s not good.

According to LiveScience they are: doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, and having a child out of wedlock. The first two I am glad about. The third I am surprised about. I don’t think it is a good idea. I think it is not the desirable way to go. But I didn’t think there was any social censure [...]