In the wee hours of the morning on April 15th, the full moon will undergo a lunar eclipse that casts a red-orange glow over the moon. It seems ominous to have this “Blood Moon” on the same day as tax day here in the good old USA. I can think of no better way to... Continue Reading →
The Two Seasons: Winter and Road Construction
Where I come from, there are really just two seasons, Winter and Road Construction. The late winter and early spring bring potholes in the road. Big, mean, tire-killing potholes on every road you drive. “Holes” doesn’t even begin to describe these Volkswagen eating monsters. They are craters. Canyons really, deep enough to have archeologists carbon... Continue Reading →
Crimea River
Dmitri Shostakovich is a Russian composer whose musical career is entangled with the history of Soviet Russia. He lived from 1906 to 1975, and in his lifetime saw the Bolshevik revolution overthrow tsarist rule, the Russian civil war, and the totalitarian Soviet State. He saw the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.... Continue Reading →