Arguably one of the rarest names in the world.
Arguably one of the rarest names in the world.
I have held things in my hands that are about 400 million years old.
Me and Vincent, linked by drawbridges…
As much as I adore learning about the lunatic fringe, I was kind of shocked that I had never heard of this character before.
On the day I wrote this, I was told by one friend that he learned about Kiva.org because of me, and that he and his daughter have been making microloans through them ever since. Another friend chimed in and said it was the same for her. This gave me a lump in my throat, because …
One of my biggest regrets is not taking advantage of the opportunity to celebrate the Day of the Dead when I was living in Mexico. I didn’t understand what a cultural and spiritual treasure this celebration is, so I skipped it. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to go back to have this experience, but …
Just before I moved to Seattle, I drove over to the house I used to own in Florida to say goodbye to it. I almost drove past it without recognizing it, such were the number of improvements the current owner had made. That was kind of disconcerting. One of the things that he changed was …
I haven’t a clue if there’s an afterlife. I’m not even in the mood to speculate about it. But life does go on. Even your life will go on without you for at least a little while. Back when I still had a VCR and a TV, I used to think about the fact that …
Approximately 40,800 years ago, someone, possibly a Neandertal, painted the oldest known cave art in a place called the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain. This is the first evidence we have of someone saying, “Death shall not silence me.” And we’ve been saying it ever since. Wanting to survive beyond your expiration date …
Many people long for an ever-increasing lifespan. They want to live forever, it seems. Maybe it’s because I’m still decades away from my expiration date (one would hope), but I’ve never understood this philosophy. In fact, it is stressful to me that the life expectancy keeps increasing. I have this fear that I’ll never catch …
The View from a Drawbridge 