Impossible Kisses

Normally, when I decide what to post here I look for something that is more or less on topic (the Goblin Universe ), something that’s intere...

I drew that almost two years ago. My pencil skills were really getting adequate. In fact, after looking at the scans of this cartoon, and N...

We've had a few inches of snow here south of Chicago and that wrecks everybody's schedule. Mine, too. The post regularly scheduled f...

Executing a photographic survey of the ecliptic searching for unknown planets (or other outer system objects) until very recently was less t...

Using my little telescope that I’ve had almost my whole life, I’ve observed Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I kn...

In the big picture of my life—the overall scheme of things—I won’t remember the year 2007 as the year that I first visited a Starbucks. I’l...

I wrote this almost two weeks ago. It was during the first week of the Australian Open tennis tournament. The new tennis season was just b...

“We shall die everyone with our secrets untold” — Berthe Morisot “With what resignation one reaches the end of life, resigned to all the fai...

“The noble soul has reverence for itself” — Nietzsche “You must be anvil or hammer” — Goethe “In real life it is always the anvil that break...

“The very notion of truth is a culturally given direction, a part of the pervasive nostalgia for an earlier certainty. The very idea of a u...

To you—is it movement or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you—revolution or just resistance? Is it living or just existence...

“I don’t know who has treated Ophelia worse, Hamlet, Gertrude or literature professors.” Did Gertrude Murder Ophelia? Berthe Morisot’s birt...