The Clarion Workshop is holding this year’s Write-a-Thon even as I’m typing this. Writers will be beavering away for the next month, trying to write enough copy to trigger donations from their sponsors. You could be that sponsor! Support the Writers of the . . . well, I can’t say Future, can I? That’s another […]

We had a pleasing holiday weekend, including a small gathering on the Fourth of July for a few friends. We served only patriotic American foods: hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, potato chips, macaroni salad . . . though it has to be admitted that we did have fruit salad in case anybody brought […]

It occurs to me that pasta seems to be the foodstuff with more folklore and superstition attached to it than any other. My mom, for example, always poured oil into the pasta water in order to keep the pasta from sticking together. It also kept the water from boiling over. When the pasta was cooked, […]

The last time I was at an air museum, I posted a picture of a mysterious aircraft and challenged you all to solve the puzzle. Diana Rowland came up with the solution in, like, twelve seconds, but now that I’ve been to the Museum of Flight I hope to do better. What is this aircraft? […]