Silver Fox

Let there be Light. and there was the Sun Let there be Rocks, and there was the Earth, with lots of Rocks. Consider, Rocks cannot move or...

I woke at 4.00am with "Throat cancer" -again! (4.07am to be precise) I padded down to the kitchen and took a couple of  antacid pi...

P.S. I just Copyrighted this. J Consider our Universe complete with its 4 dimensions – at least four! Scientists tell us that all the ...

Hi Dad, how does the lawn look? I just mowed it. Were you watching? do you remember when we went fishing together for the first time on the...

Getting a permit to build a house in Anne Arundel County Maryland is difficult in the extreme. It took us three years and cost $60,000. That...

Are Corporations people? Do they have religious beliefs that can be violated? Am I crazy? Well you would probably think so if I believed tha...

Tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich. Then they will make jobs. We keep hearing this cry Well we have cut taxes to the rich over and...

An ironing board sits in our utility room, actually there are two there. I am not sure why because I don't think we have ironed anything...

I don't think that I am going to make it to the gym again today. That makes it ten years in a row!

It was very windy here last night. Not as bad as it was in the Philipines mind you where they had winds of 200 mph with gusts up to 235 mph ...

Let's eat Grandma. Or Let's eat, Grandma.

I like poetry, long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.

My wife says that I never listen to her. At least I think that is what she said.

Engineers aren't boring. We just get excited about boring things. :)

You can't scare me. I had a daughter!

Yes here I am again with my "favorite" subject - guns. What is happening with us? Yet another multiple gun killing yesterday. No ...

Finally here we are getting towards the end of June and the harvest is starting to come in. We leave for England early tomorrow morning. Jul...

This is just a simple observation. Make of it what you will. I think that the Republican Party is anti education because they know that onc...

How naive can Americans be? Twenty years ago a friend who worked at NSA told me about the programs they had to look for certain words in pho...

We took a Danube River Cruise in about 2009. It was in June. It rained every day! We never got to go up onto the top deck where they had cha...

After a long cool spring, Memorial Day - Monday May 27th 2013 - was forecast to be fine, sunny and 70 degrees. Bradley had called and asked ...

While digging in The Lake - I don't know, for clams or to get a rock out or something - we found this really weird bone! It turned out t...

Once again The Lake is loaded with Cormorants and Osprey. At times there are so many Cormorants that they look like floating islands out the...

The minimum wage in the UK is around $10 an hour. In Norway it is around $20 and hour. In the US, the richest country in the world, it is ju...

We have all heard of NCLB - No Child Left Behind - a commendable effort to improve the education of children who are not as "bright...

We have seen the odd Cormorant or two on The Lake over the last 2 or 3 weeks, but when I looked out today I was amazed to see a large group ...

I cannot remember any time that sanctions have worked. Think about it, if someone said to you, "I will not xxx unless you don't xxx...

We are still paying subsidies to the oil and gas industries. In 2011 they made PROFITS of $137 BILLION - more than 1 1/2 times the cuts that...

Hard as it may be to believe, horsemeat may actually be better for you to eat than beef! In America anyway. That is because meat in America ...

Is it possible that Spring is almost here? The love of my life - Julia, to those who don't know me - said yesterday from her sick bed, s...

I just took a bag of salad that had gone off and shook it out into our chicken run. You would have thought that it was a bag of Caviar! They...

Can there be any doubt that the Republican Party's strategy is strictly one of obstructionism? When President Obama proposes tax cuts,...

OK, Darwinism for Dummies. Just lately we have had a lot of little black fruit flies in our kitchen. Especially in the morning when I go in,...

I was listening to George Wallace on the radio today and his speech of 1963 in which he said "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and...

It has now been 30 days since the Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut school shooting on Dec 13 2012. Since then there have been more than 1,00...

Wanting sensible gun laws doesn't make me anti-gun any more than wanting sensible traffic laws makes me anti-car. We don't want dr...

Which is "Best" the Bay or our Lake? Well as lovely as it is to have a view of The Chesapeake Bay I have to go for The Lake as my ...

Those who know me know that I like numbers. I just heard that Chicago passed 500 gun deaths for the year. I tried to check those figures, ...

Those little cat feet are all over the place again this morning. In fact they have been there almost every morning for the last couple of we...

Can you say Disability Rights? Surely a non-controversial subject wouldn't you think? So would I. A no-brainer? But no, the usual applie...

Yes that is what it was outside today! It was 70 in Chicago yesterday! It is supposed to be in the 20's in Chicago at this time of the y...

I was thinking about poetry after writing my last Blog, about poetry. And I thought I would do another little piece. That's the way th...

What is it about poetry? Do we all like poetry, or just some us? If we like, are we different from those who don't like? Can we really n...

Today was fog. It came in on little cat feet. It crawled into my mind like you. You crawled in on June 15th 1962 when I saw you dancing on t...

Or more specifically, My Amazing Human Body. When I was about 8 years old builders started to build some homes next to our home. I lived i...