It surprises me that every time an announcement is made that some well-established knowledge, however temporary it might be, gets pronounced out of date, there is the inevitable cry and clamor of all those who denounce it as a hoax, a blasphemy, an incomplete joke, you name it. I was reminded of this recently when […]
Hey, what do you know? I’m in Africa, the land where it all begun, and for free, too: I won my dream vacation and something I would never have thought to spend money on—on my own that is. In short, I got to fly to some place in Africa—who cares where, as long as they […]
After some reading as well as thoughtful analysis on the subject, I’ve decided to become an Early Life Theorist. And why not? Little is known about it, lots of people are into it, there’s plenty of money available on grants, not to mention so much difference of opinion that I figured one more will hardly […]
Hello earthlings: . . . Babe Ruth here. No, not the one that may pop into your underdeveloped minds, but all of us here pick famous nicknames from the nearby planets we’re assigned to, just for fun. Not often I make my presence known, besides not easy to do, as our outpost, for privacy reasons, […]
My brother and I were sitting out in my porch one evening when I made mention of some giant problem I was having at the time. He said: “Best thing to do with a problem is enjoy it.” Well, I can’t say I didn’t argue with him, but I didn’t do it for long. Reason […]
Well, I’m disappointed. No, not at the election results, since once I knew what the choices were, I lost interest. Rather, I’m disappointed that the cataclysmic results forecast by either party if the other one won the election never materialized. It’s been a week now and so far I’m waiting. I figured that if everyone […]
A picture taken last March by my son Juan Pablo, the day he was preparing to bike up the Villarrica Volcano in Southern Chile. Fortunately, he had enough sense to postpone the trip until next March, when supposedly things will have calmed down. That morning the volcano was rumbling so that everyone could hear it, […]
Francisco going deer hunting brought back memories of another time and place when my friends and I would go deer slapping. This is a game where one hides in the woods along a deer path. And we didn’t have to hide for long. Right about the time of the Louisiana Purchase, there were deer everywhere. […]
December 23 six year ago was a memorable day in that I had a close call with Mother Nature. Not the closest one I’ve had, but close enough to say that at the time and for a minute or two, I thought the game was up and my goose was cooked. My friend Mike, a […]
Once, when I was traveling south in Patagonia (Argentina), looking out the bus window, somewhere between San Carlos de Bariloche and Bolsón, I saw a huge boulder out in the middle of nowhere. It was so completely out of place, it stood out like a greedy pig in church: as big as a three story […]