Famine

Famine once thought to be a permanent and ordinary part of life has largely disappeared. Science and engineering not government and legislation have almost eliminated famine. Science it appears is cur... Read More

Exploration

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You don’t have to go far away to explore new things. Inga from Germany on Postcrossing photo is from a short visit to La Jolla, CA this week... 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

Postcards as Art

I belong to a group called Postcrossing.  With it you send postcards to strangers and other strangers send postcards back to you.  There are more than 500,000 active users right now. Some of the mem... Read More