With apologies to Nancy and Eric Gurney. This is a guest post from my dad. The title of the post is a reference to one of my favorite childhood books, The King, The Mice, and The Cheese (TK, TM, and TC), by Nancy and Eric Gurney. The post is adapted from an email he sent […]
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The Crank Index
Son #1 sent me an article about cranks, people who hold strong, contrarian positions. The focus of the article was mathematical cranks, those who insist that they have solutions to mathematical problems known to have no solution. I especially enjoyed The Crank Index in the article, attributed to mathematician Chris Caldwell. Caldwell studies prime numbers, […]
Goals. Check!
Walking in my neighborhood, I saw this stray sheet of notepad paper. I love this list. This is now my list, and I can honestly report that I have accomplished everything on it.
Arrivederci Professor Forni
There was an obituary in The Wall Street Journal for one Professor Pier Massimo Forni, “a poet and scholar of Italian literature.” I found this guy to be an interesting choice for coverage in a newspaper focused on business. Usually the obituaries in the WSJ are about people who influenced the economy. So how did […]
The No Worries Cafe is Closed
I once ate a meal at a restaurant called The No Worries Cafe. The meal was during a period in my life when I really needed a moment of no worries. Wishful thinking, I suppose, led me there. I discovered the closure when I was writing my blog post about living on the sunny side […]
Be a Rainbow
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. Maya Angelou A thought (from Pinterest, where else?) on a snowy May day in Colorado.
Sunny Side of the Street
The other day it occurred to me that I live on the sunny side of the street. But only literally. Our house faces south. In the suburban wilds of California where I grew up, we had no need for the compass. Here in Colorado, I can north-south-east-west with the best of them (or at least […]
Birthday Present
Tomorrow is a big birthday. A BIG one. I’ve been thinking about what I want the day to be like. I came up with this: This post is dedicated to Jenny the Genie. 🙂
No One Was Listening
I read Steal Like an Artist recently. There is a poetic justice that my favorite bit of it was this quote, attributed to Andre Gide: Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, it needs to be said again. This sums up a key challenge of raising […]