AS LONG AS IF ONLY
A few weeks ago several of us were waiting on Zoom for the rest of the team to join us for our monthly Board meeting, and the casual conversation was going something like this: “How are you doing?” “Well… I’m…
TINY GRASS IS DREAMING
A lawn sign appeared a few years ago, becoming popular across the internet: Chinese characters with the quaint English rendering — “Do Not Disturb: Tiny Grass is Dreaming.” I really don’t know if the translation is accurate. I read an…
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
Sometimes it seems like everything has changed and nothing will ever be the same. From another angle, though, it looks to me like things are pretty much the same as they’ve always been — amped up, for sure, but basically…
FOR GOOD MEASURE
I don't remember why, but for some reason, I was looking up the arbitrary standards by which non-metric measurements were established. For example: an inch, originally, was determined to be the width of a man’s thumb. In a number…
HAVE IT YOUR WAY
Our one-year-old kitty, Danny, was a skinny little guy when he joined our family six months ago. His Instagram handle is “Little Danny Cat,” in fact, because he seemed so bitty compared to his mature sister-aunties, Val and Flo. That…