Impossible Kisses

As I type this, it is early in the a.m. hours of Monday. I haven’t been to sleep yet, so for me it is Sunday night. I stayed up to watc...

I fall backward into the water of Loch Ness and continue falling through the cold dark water too fast like I am made of lead but I strug...

I spend so much time lost in fantasy that it feels strange to feel so terrified at having slipped away for an instant but I ask myself...

The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis, is a very destructive insect pest of ash trees (Fraxinus spp.), the only known hosts of...

Moonlight Above a dark street Below a streetlight That switches off Music Played on a guitar Sung in a soft voice Measures time ...

Uncertain Mary She’s a paleontologist and a famous scientist asks her to drop everything and join his team in Antarctica. But all he ...

Today’s post didn’t work out the way I’d planned. Big fail. I feel the internet let me down. I had planned a post comparing an actual,...

The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is a ghost story. Due to its ambiguous cont...

Regionally, ComEd spokesman John Schoen said, more than 300,000 customers had lost power at one point, including more than 40,000 in the ...

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that it was the third month in a row that I grabbed a photo of the young Moon, although the photo I took...

It looks almost like the mast of a sailboat. The wires look a little like standing rigging keeping the mast upright as it drives the...

Don't Look Now is a 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star as a married couple who tr...

Today’s post is about music and it’s going to be kind of trivial, but I’m going to do it for at least four reasons. First, this is part of...

It's hard to believe, but the arrival of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto is just three years away. The logistics of the h...