Digital Crafts

Will there still be crafts and hobbies in this new digital age?  What will they be like?  Are handicrafts dead.  Do children still build with Popsicle sticks? Is tinkering dead? These are good ques... Read More

Hidden Art

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso A mural on the back of the Embree Bus building in Pasadena. On Allen just south of the 210 freeway... Read More

Cesar’s Wife’s Rule

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Caesar’s Wife’s Rule “Caesars wife should never act improperly but she also should never be in a position where there can even be any suspicion that she acted improperly.” Hillary ... Read More

Time Enough

Smart Phones, Texting and email have made our lives feel much more urgent.  How can you find time to learn a new skill, practice an old one or study a complex problem when your phone is tweeting abou... Read More

Health Benefit

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Here is the itemized bill from La Grande Orange in Pasadena. It contains a new line item that I find troubling. We hadn’t eaten at La Grande Orange Cafe for a while and on Tuesday night we had a... Read More

We have a collective desire to have a big thing to fear. It is part of our DNA. Right now climate change is the big thing we fear. Beckman Institute at Caltech reflecting morning light. We used to col... Read More

Fitness Perspective

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People complain because their Fitbits, Garmins or Apple Watches aren’t perfectly accurate.  Here is some perspective. This is a pedometer: It is what people used to wear to calculate distance.Â... Read More

New Word Alert

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Raisined Tomatoes From the menu at Seco a Smith Brothers restaurant in Pasadena “Raisined” v to dry in a way that make the product resemble a raisin. ex: His skin was raisined. You saw it ... Read More