1 A Mad Rush to the End
2 Walking Away
3 On the Edge of the Storm
4 Flowing Thoughts by the Flowing River
5 My Dilemma
6 Key to Success
7 Email to Bill
8 What all Life could be
9 Goli, The Warrior
10 At Last, my Love
11 Goli
12 White Ash
13 Egyptian Lady
14 Environmental Trilogy Plus One
15 Revelations of a Birdfeeder Assumptions Corrected
16 Thoughts of you
17 Needed Energy Power in Canada
18 Disrupters
19 White Streets?!?
20 The Connecting Limb
21 Evolution
22 Unrequited Honey
23 Our Darwin's Tubercle (or Point)
24 Aggression and Love
25 Yolanda
26 Marian
27 Autumnal Black Walnut
28 Ode to my Dentist
29 The Wolf Captured
30 Dear Mr. Garamendi. US Representative. (Letter)
31 Our Sun
32 Climate Change
33 Your Umbilical Scar
34 Mutation Manifests Phylogeny
35 Clothes
36 Bonobos and Humans
37 Cuisine and Shame
38 Entomophagy I
39 Entomophagy II
40 Who's Really in Charge?
41 Anonymous
42 Contemplation
43 USA!
44 News Flash!!
45 My Holiday Beverage
46 Our Second Amendment
47 Dialects
48 Who Really Makes the Choice?
49 Immutable Species
50 Hidden Libraries
51 Lifespan
52 To Dick Miller, my Friend. d. 2009
53 Fundraising: Raising Remunerations for a Good Cause
54 A Text to Andy, a Former Student, now older and more mature
55 Mutation
56 Treichel
57 My Wonderful Tree House
58 Pheasants on a Swedish Lawn
59 Foiled
60 Fire on the Christmas Tree
61 Frank the Milkman
62 Mercury Dimes, Remaining
63 Communication Parameters of a New Generation
64 Campangol (Campanyol)
65 Nora. Memories
66 Out Of Africa
67 The Elephant and the Tree (1977)
68 Dinosaur Bone
69 Kalahari and the Termite Mound (1975)
70 A Dance in the Kalahari on a Pan (1976)
71 16 January 2023, Davis, California Sun; on a day predicted for more rain!
72 25 June 1973, Lesotho, Southern Africa
73 A Jester
74 A Time to Decide
75 The African Bee (1969-1973)
76 4 January 1980, Sacramento, California
77 Drums Across the Ocean (1978)
78 At Dusk by my Table
79 Basil's Sweet Look
80 Marshfield Woman. One
81 Marshfield Woman. Two
82 Nicholas, the future Zoologist
83 Robert Burns, the Day after His Birthday
84 The Termite Feast
85 Encountering a Cobra while on Horseback. (Lesotho, Africa)
86 Cancer Demons
87 My Brother John
88 Marina
89 Swimming the Bosphorus
90 Comprehension
91 The Aardvark Hole
92 The Poppies of Elsinore, California
93 Just What are We all About?
94 My Dream of the Golden-haired Microtus
95 The SinkHole
96 Texted Thoughts to a Well Digger's Wife
97 After Talking with my Friend, Jay
98 Caught by a Catfish!
99 The Epitome of Life
100 To Ingegerd
101 Paul, the South African
102 Juan the Basque
103 Little Dinosaurs at my Window
104 Telah, the Basotho Pony
105 Telah's Sad Undoing. Part 2
106 Some Thoughts
107 Recyling
108 AI (Artificial Intelligence)
109 Sunrise
110 Flying I. Dream of Flying
111 Flying II. A Trip to Buzzards Bay
112 Flying III. At the Airport
113 Flying IV. The Interview
114 Exchange between two Philosophies
115 Who Will Win?
116 Flying V: After a long Hiatus
117 Elena. Physical Therapist
118 The Wonderful Horseshoe Crab
119 Humanism
120 Radiation and Half a Beard
121 The Octopus
122 Grasping onto a Future Past
123 Our Honey Bee
124 My Lost, Saved Tooth
125 The Human Third Age
126 Greatness
127 The Bumblebee; a California Fish?
128 A Text to my Grandson
129 Wasting Food
130 Are We Floundering, Using the Name Halibut?
131 Herding Geese
132 May We not lose Our Joshua Trees!
133 Dear Agave Plant
134 Rare Earth Metals
135 The Pacific Pond Turtle
136 The Labyrinth
137 Anthropocene Epoch
138 I. Human-caused Evolutionary Changes - Tuskless Female Elephants in Mozambique
139 II. Human-caused Evolutionary Changes - Aggressive African Bees/Gentle European Bees
140 My Dear Friend Bob. An Ode to Robert Duca
141 A Chat with my Ophthalmologist, Car'mine
142 Birds Coping with the New Heat
143 Flying VI. Flying Others
144 Flying VII. A Trip to Fort Collins, Colorado
145 Mary Stoots. A Serendipitous Friend
146 A Checklist for Energy Use in Our New Age
147 Evolution Doesn't Exist! (Dogs must have come from an Omniscient Puff!)
148 Can Slavery Really be Justified?
149 Wonderful Tony
150 Happy Birthday (23 July) to Eric, 20 Year Old Son of Jessie and Ana Soto
151 What is Sacred?
152 Emmett Till
153 To be as Smart as a Corvid!
154 Jessie Soto
155 Sartorial Thoughts
156 'Doubting' Thomas
157 Voice Changes
158 Baby Bones
159 Two Invaders, Meeting
160 The Whistled 'S'
161 The Whistled 'S'; An Addendum
162 Flying VIII. The Professor's Flight
163 Temporal 'Fight or Flight'
164 Lengua
165 The Menstruating Man
166 Banning Shakespeare?
167 The Inside Windchime
168 'Iqra' or 'Read'
169 Blacks and Country Music
170 The Veterinarian's 'Hippocratic Oath'
171 Our Mother Seas
172 To Meal Creators!
173 The Joy in Shape
174 Two Declarations for Freedom
175 Lauretta, PA (A Physician Assistant)
176 Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
177 Australian Singer, Genesis Owusu
178 Water Levels--Rising and Falling!
179 Is Juvenile Play Useful?
180 Driverless Monsters
181 The Enigma of the Eight-tailed Eagle!
182 The Florence Nightingale Pledge
183 Humans, as Other Primates, Must Have Leaders, Idols, Stars, Heroes
184 Fences Needing Repair
185 Flying IX. Landing a Cessna 150 on the Numbers
186 The Plight of the Hellbender
187 The Enigma of the Florida Key Deer
188 Whaling out Names!
189 The Rewilding of Humanity
190 Flying X. The Flight to Nowhere
191 The Olive Saga
192 The Struggling Polar Bear
193 The Darkening Arctic
194 Road Traffic Influence on Bird Wing Length
195 Turning the Tables on a Mess Together
196 The House
197 Alive!
198 Darian vs Darien / Any Connections?
199 Proper Treatment of the Vanquished
200 Eco Distress
201 A Divided Body?
202 A Thought from the Dalai Lama
203 A Thought
204 A Text to an Old HS Fellow Student
205 R3 Food Dye
206 The Question
207 Chance, My Grandson
208 Turkiye, Celebrating 100 Years Today
209 Just Wondering
210 1. Music To My Ears. The Early Days
211 White Boards
212 The Tusk
213 My Poems and Thoughts
214 Windchimes by my Window
215 Kim from Montana
216 11/11/11--Veterans Day
217 Trees and Turkeys
218 Text Exchanges--A Place to Stay in Dublin
219 Gaza
220 In a Poet's Mind
221 My Text Encouragement to One, Fearful of Caves
222 Remembrance of WWII and Vietnam. An Email from Loren
223 2. Music To My Ears. Middle Years; Antioch College
224 Our Sun-Star
225 Nora
226 An Atomic Tragedy
227 Dog Walking
228 Reconciliation or (just) Recognition?
229 Nature AND Nurture
230 Climate Panic
231 A Tribute to Sandra Day O'Connor
232 3. Music To My Ears. Later Years. Cornell
233 A Thought for a Capable Woman
234 4. Music To My Ears. Further Later Years; Turkey (now Turkiye)
235 Supper in My House! (An email.)
236 Must There Always be Perpetual War?
237 A Tiny Gift
238 An Email to a Jewish Friend
239 What is Beauty?
240 Two Types of Blackmail
241 A Maple Syrup Thank You
242 Grief Unveiled
243 A Moment from the Past
244 Christmas Owls, Nuptially Vocalizing
245 So, Who Has Suffered Most?
246 A Vietnam Memory
247 Procrastination
248 Okto Mom--A Devoted Mother
249 Orientation to Our World
250 Obsolete Hormones?
251 Christmas Alone
252 A New Perspective on Santa
253 New Year's Eve
254 Our Tree Shrew Affair
255 Awake, Neanderthal You have migrated to a new time zone
256 The Olfactory Mammal
257 The Fire Pole
258 6 January 2024
259 'Vertebra'
260 Replications
261 Roadkill
262 To Paul, Who Would Understand
263 To Don, My Brother-in-Law
264 Variation on a Theme
265 Two Possibilities
266 How Wonderful to be so Royally Goosed!
267 The Glitter Problem
268 The Position of the Eagles' Wings
269 Cold Drizzle
270 Flowers on an Unused Stove
271 Eva
272 The USS Constitution: Recollections of a Boy on One of Our Greatest Ships
273 To My Dermatologist, Christie Carroll, et al
274 What Would Jesus Do?
275 Book Banning
276 Ellie The Governor
277 Is Humanism a Solution?
278 United Columns
279 The Enlightenment of a Man
280 The Right-Handed Warthog
281 An Upper Trophic Level
282 Friend or Foe: The Red Cedar
283 The World's Panama Canal
284 The Tipping Point
285 Stirring up CO2
286 Damming the Damning
287 Why has English Lost 'Thou'?
288 Where does Prejudice End?
289 Our Elders. To the Young Ones Around Me
290 Yet Another Biological Team
291 A Twenty-first Century Human Dilemma
292 The Synergy of Human Girls and Their Dogs
293 My Haplogroup G on the Y Chromosome
294 Fashion vs Function
295 The Abortion Argument
296 Nikki: A Benevolent One or a Potential Dictatress?
297 The Egyptian Vulture
298 Intraspecific Conflict
299 1066 AD
300 A Delayed Tale
301 A Surprise Visit!
302 Alexei Navalny
303 Eleven Primaries Allow Flight
304 A Payback for being Abused?
305 Are White Camembert and Brie Doomed to Extinction?
306 Our Holy Land
307 Some General 'Rules' to Ponder. (Written With B. Franklin in Mind.)
308 What Are We Governing?
309 The New Palestinian Nation--A Proposal
310 Oh, Dear Southern Alabama
311 A True Philosopher
312 Invaders, Conquerors, and 'Gentle' Expansionists
313 Our Marijuana Dogs
314 Why Do We Have a Leap Year?
315 Green-dyed Food!
316 Wish to have a More Exact Calendar?
317 Aging in the Darkness of Night
318 The Irish Stand for the Palestinians
319 Rationalizing Age
320 Flying XI The Snowstorm
321 Flying XII. Night Flying
322 To Lady Sultan
323 Lady Justice
324 The Hidden Perils of 'New' Technology
325 Trapped by Age
326 Hats Which Define Us
327 Floating Beauty
328 A Deadline or the Ultimate End?
329 The Deafening Silence of Quiet Snowfall
330 Our relations with world events
331 Musical Similarities Over the Centuries
332 Memories Elicited from a Folded Sarong
333 Our Two Critical Compromises
334 Why are Men Deciding These Things?
335 Condemned to a Possible Death Sentence?
336 Slavery--Here?--In OUR History?
337 Can Revolution be Justified?
338 Permafrost
339 To a Celtic-Cuban
340 Awareness
341 In Anticipation of a Partial Solar Eclipse
342 Coping With the Climate Crisis
343 Our Sun
344 Heat--The Silent Killer
345 'The Seasons of Man'
346 Indigenous American Agriculture
347 Strong People
348 Creating a Conservation Easement
349 The Scottish Bank
350 A Pastoral (Bucolic) Sunday Visit
351 Two Very Sexy Geese
352 The Tragic Separation by War
353 A Mammalian (Human) Territorial Flaw
354 Glimpsing a Touch of the Sixth Extinction
355 Subsiding Cities
356 Any Compensation for Palestinian Lands?
357 Bird Talk--Three Thousand Miles Apart
358 The Wisdom of the Inexperienced
359 We are having a Telephone Speech Crisis
360 Technological Augmentation of Testosterone
361 Neanderthals (and Early Homo sapiens) Could not Live on Mammoth Flesh Alone!
362 The Fall Risk
363 Mohammed of Gaza
364 Dig Your Canines into this One!
365 So Many Choices are Dividing Us
366 Are We Really Following the Correct Philosophy?
367 They 'Otter' get it Right - Another Dentition Story
368 Memorial Day--May 2024
369 The Sacred Piano Keyboard
370 Flying XIII. Emergency Landings
371 Playful Orcas?
372 Why the Denial?
373 Changes
374 Contentment After Eight Decades
375 How to Survive an Alligator!
376 Might I have been a Coworker with Betsy Ross?
377 Designing Bandages alla Betsy Ross
378 An Eye for an Eye
379 Ukraine
380 Wouldn't it be Wonderful
381 Is Our World Losing its Finest Democratic Republic?
382 On his Day Three Decades Ago--Our 4 July
383 6 June 1944
384 Amputations of Man and Beast
385 Dear Women
386 California's Newest State Symbol
387 Our Diastemas
388 Flying XIV. A Spray Application Demo
389 My Mount Monadnock Campers' Hike
390 AI and Honey Bees--New Introductions into Society
391 A Greeting for my Eye Doctor
392 To live by the Sword
393 Woman Power
394 Are We in Climate Reversal with AI?
395 The Unfolding of Classical Music's Morphology
396 Domestication
397 Making Peace
398 Coming to Terms with Hell
399 Were Our Teeth Always in Our Mouths?
400 Butterfly Massacre
401 How Our Eye has Fared in the Jump from Sea to Land
402 My Only 'Authentic' Sermon!
403 My Chickens and Chez Panisse Restaurant
404 Butterfly Massacre--A Sequel
405 A Regrettable Decision?
406 Challenges
407 The Homeland
408 How Long a Bully?
409 Friday Night! (An 83-year-old's Perspective)
410 A Deceptive Account
411 My Relationship with Horace Mann
412 Our Preferences of Beauty
413 Another Twisted Bit of History
414 Hear Me Dear People
415 A Shot and Then a Fire!
416 My Scottish Connection
417 An Old Biologist's Plea
418 Just a Passing Thought
419 A California Saga--Freezing!
420 The Consequences
421 Technology May be Our Salvation (At Least for a While)
422 Who's Got Milk?
423 Afternoon of my 83rd Birthday (Train of Thoughts)
424 When All Have Departed
425 Solitude
426 Norumbega ('Belonging to Norway') -- The Site of Vinland?
427 The Canaries We Need to Watch
428 The Afterlife
429 Where has HAVE gone?
430 Crunching a Singular into a Plural!
431 Sole or not a Sole?
432 Several Modern Sources for Instant Death
433 Two Canaries to Watch
434 To No One
435 A Good Intention, Drowns Some Hopes
436 African Origins
437 Kris Kristofferson -- A Look-A-Like?
438 A Leaden History
439 An Unexpected Roll!
440 The End of Yet Another Golden Age?
441 Sports - To Be or Not To Be
442 Alex Salmond (Former Scottish Prime Minister)
443 Columbus Was a Jew?
444 Sally Sobottka, My Friend
445 Time Slowed to Almost a Standstill
446 There was Chicxulub and now Nadir?
447 The Longevity Bottleneck Hypothesis
448 Water, Water Everywhere, but For How Long?
449 A Marine Fantasy
450 Political Order
451 My Neanderthal Past
452 Life Adaptable!
453 Time Revisited
454 The Right-Handed, Left-Sided Elbow Phenomenon
455 Yet Another Plight of Women
456 Alien Enemies Act of 1798 -- 'Operation Aurora' (Trump)
457 A Scottish Influence
458 A Superfluous Opinion
459 Ancient Artists Proved Right!
460 Zebra Stripes
461 Strange Footprints
462 Shortsightedness?
463 Attempted Robbery
464 My Neanderthal Kindred
465 My Outer Body--A Petri Dish for Cancer
466 My Verbal Rambles with Regan of Texas
467 A Prayer for All Tyrants
468 Our Gladiator History
469 A Health Nut, Falling?
470 The Aurochs Permeates Everywhere
471 My Ode to the Haggis
472 Search for Purpose
473 Email to Doris, a Former German Farm Student Intern
474 The Beaching Enigma
475 Pyramid Meditation
476 What a Difference an 'E' Makes
477 A Ceremony Over an Opossum Skull
478 Story Telling
479 Scotexican Food Mix Proposal!
480 A Culturally Blending World
481 A Note to a Daughter-in-Law
482 Ants as a Vector
483 Needless Killing
484 A Christmas Story
485 Did Humans Really Build the Pyramids?
486 A Thanksgiving Tidbit
487 A Catastrophe Causes Ants to Change Their Diet
488 Reaching Out to Those 'Others'
489 How to be Bailed Out with Half a Turkey
490 Avalie is Coming to Visit
491 A Saturday Morning Spass
492 A Gaza-Israeli Progress Report
493 The Romantic Tumbleweed
494 One More New Year's Eve, Following Thousands
495 A Positive Point Towards Talking
496 Our National Mindset
497 A Plural Transgresses into a Singular
498 Prayer of a Viking
499 Did Neanderthals Have a Feeling of Ownership?
500 Human's Success on Planet Earth
501 The LA Fires
502 To My Two Sons
503 Our Future?
504 Those Illegals!
505 Paper Whites Responding to the Rain
506 A Haggis Repast
507 Human Holding Pens
508 A Love Dream
509 The White-crowned Sparrow
510 Tariffs--A Remedy for All Things?
511 A New Country Called California!
512 A Child's Mind! 1
513 A Child's Mind! 2
514 A Child's Mind! 3
515 My Dear Childhood Friend, Frances Brown
516 A Last Stage
517 A Quick Thought to a Swiss Friend Late at Night
518 Did the Cave Artists Get the Hump Correct? (Another Glimpse)
519 The Hunter-Gathers
520 Why Do We Talk to Ourselves?
521 The Buffleheads' Return
522 A New Gaza Playa Report?
523 Our Fellow Bird Vocalizations
524 A Mystery Footprint
525 An Unidentified Invader
526 The Dog That Went Too Far--An Allegory
527 Overcoming the Impossible
528 Seta
529 The Fate of Two Sons
530 It is Saturday
531 If Only, If Only
532 Origins of Spoken Language
533 Indohyus Becomes a Whale
534 Only Two Sexes!
535 Our Attraction to Flowers
536 Creativity
537 Flowers for Marty
538 A Source of Emotion. (A true tale.)
539 Three Choices
540 Perhaps the Fastest Evolving Animal in the US!
541 PREDATE--a Josh
542 Bundles of Flowers
543 Our Human Family Tree
544 Possibly True?
545 A Fortunate Old Man
546 A Pseudo Peace (For Patrick)
547 Benjamin Franklin and Canada as the 14th Colony
548 Why the Difference in Human and Neanderthal Faces?
549 Wings of Birds--Thoughts of a Modern Homo
550 The Creation of Dogs--Just Child's Play
551 Cloth vs Paper?
552 Are the Statue of Liberty's Words Now a Cliche?
553 The Mason (Inspired by Jay W.)
554 April; Coping with Less Rain
555 Tooth Structure Makes a Difference
556 Dealing With Death
557 Marrow
558 Mason Bee vs the European Honeybee
559 Tariffs on Chicken Feet??
560 The White-crowned Sparrow--A Biannual Reminder in my Calendar (Dedicated to Melissa)
561 Sounds for a Birder
562 Playing Chess with Tariffs
563 Chlorinated Chickens!
564 Elizabeth Vrba (1942 - 2025)
565 Lexington, Massachusetts
566 Assault on Democracy?
567 On Ornaments and Clothing, with Easter in Mind
568 How Might a Hindu Take the Story of Easter?
569 22 April 2025--Earth Day
570 Heaven And Earth
571 A Dream to Freedom!
572 A 21st Century Book Burning
573 Compassionate Leadership
574 Distribution of Energy
575 To Coal or not to Coal?
576 My Pictish Beast Tattoo
577 Memorial Day, 26 May 2025
578 To See or To Hear; And Then There is Walking
579 The Vicarious Conductor
580 Will TACO Make a Difference?
581 A Moment in an Elevator on the Second Floor
582 Exaggeration or Untruth?
583 Blind Devotion?
584 Puking Carbon
585 Is There Really a Singular 'THEY'?
586 'We-Other'
587 Fathers' Day (15 June 2025)
588 And Then There is the 'New They'!
589 What is Yourn is 'Meen' or What is Yours is Mine
590 Does Banning Things Ever Succeed?
591 Can a Monkey Really Read?
592 Adumbrations of Death
593 Is Selection Our Mindless Life Guide?
594 There's Carbon dioxide, But What of Methane?
595 Pugnacious News
596 An Unintended Holiday Consequence
597 Mass Deportation and the Cost to Society
598 What of the Pictish Stone Creatures' Orientations?
599 A New Stab at Creating Abiogenesis-Life
600 The Intriguing Trilobite
601 More Guns and More Gas
602 A Note to Harriet
603 Another Dream Remembered
604 The Weight of Two X Chromosomes
605 Grooming May Be the Undoing of Vampire Bats
606 Diminution of Codfish in Our Food Chain
607 Are Audio Books a Form of Reading?
608 Recognition of the Skewed Nose
609 Mimicry
610 An Interview Using the 'Wobbly Chair Test'
611 The Momentum of Speech
612 Hope is the Enemy of Courage
613 Lesotho--Where's That?
614 Challenges for a Professional Female Pilot
615 Are We Witnessing the Downfall of a Great Democracy?
616 Codfish Are Becoming Greatly Reduced in Size. An Additional Thought
617 A Story of the American Bullfrog
618 A Radioactive Wasp Nest?
619 Mimicry Refined
620 Summer Splashes of Red
621 Radioactive Rhinoceroses?
622 'Number Five'
623 The Tattooer
624 Is the Sky Really Blue?
625 Do Voters Choose Their Politicians OR Do the Politicians Choose Their Voters?
626 Myself Or Me?
627 To Andrew: The Dual Existence of our Saturdays' Time Spans
628 To a Fellow Human
629 Pill bugs and Trilobites
630 Watching a Wild Turkey Harvest Seed
631 Me or I?
632 An Elder's Views on Aging, Learned While Living as a Youth, With Men Mentally Crippled from War
633 Libyan Desert Glass
634 A Follow-up on 'Number Five'
635 Deep Sea Mining of Polymetallic Nodules
636 Katrina Devastates New Orleans
637 The Taco Bell / Voice
638 It's All in Your Mind
639 Yet Another School Shooting
640 Sulphur Butterfly Migration
641 Another View of Death
642 Usurpation of a Family Name
643 'Daddy'
644 Benjamin Franklin's Family Bout with Smallpox
645 On the Wall
646 The Six Ring Benzine Menace
647 Solitary Confinement
648 Deportation
649 A Possible Fate
650 A Ten Minute 'Peek' at a Kabuki Theatre Evolved into Three Hours!
651 Like-mindedness or Absent-mindedness?
652 CLT--Cross Laminated Timber May Rejuvenate Use of Wood
653 A Cancer Progress Report
654 'My' Has Evolved to 'I's'!
655 Why do Female Mammals Live Longer than Males?
656 Dancing Days
657 White-crowneds Juxtaposed with the Great Horneds
658 An Unexpected Attack
659 Relationships
660 Railroads in My Life
661 The Lugging of Coal Clinkers
662 A Virtual Farm
663 A Rusophycus
664 Final Statement Made on Wyoming Deed Restrictions
665 A Sad Gerrymandering Flood
666 Quiet Counter Revolution
667 Why a Pet Rock? Have a Trilobite!
668 The Monarch
669 Does a Building Height Depict Who We Are?
670 David Attenborough
671 Leland and Esther. (Wedding 2003)
672 Pigeons. Also Called Rock Doves (Pigeons) or Feral Pigeons
673 Relationships 12 October 2025. 1150 Hours
674 Relationships 27 October 2025. 1716 Hours
675 The Numbers in My Childhood
676 To a Mentor
677 Natalie Corona, Died While on Duty. 1996-2019
678 Thirty-five
679 The Revolutionary of the Pen
680 The Visionary
681 Bellwether
682 Facades
683 An Op vs a Hoop
684 Don't be Screwed!
685 Genetic Captures
686 The Penny is Gone
687 Two Approaches to Climate Change
688 One Ear and the Other
689 The Fallacy of Pardoning Turkeys