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'Daddy'
'Doubting' Thomas
'Iqra' or 'Read'
'My' Has Evolved to 'I's'!
'Number Five'
'The Seasons of Man'
'Vertebra'
'We-Other'
Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
1066 AD
11/11/11--Veterans Day
16 January 2023, Davis, California Sun; on a day predicted for more rain!
22 April 2025--Earth Day
25 June 1973, Lesotho, Southern Africa
4 January 1980, Sacramento, California
6 January 2024
6 June 1944
A 21st Century Book Burning
A California Saga--Freezing!
A Cancer Progress Report
A Catastrophe Causes Ants to Change Their Diet
A Ceremony Over an Opossum Skull
A Chat with my Ophthalmologist, Car'mine
A Checklist for Energy Use in Our New Age
A Child's Mind! 1
A Child's Mind! 2
A Child's Mind! 3
A Christmas Story
A Culturally Blending World
A Dance in the Kalahari on a Pan (1976)
A Deadline or the Ultimate End?
A Deceptive Account
A Delayed Tale
A Divided Body?
A Dream to Freedom!
A Fishy Gift
A Follow-up on 'Number Five'
A Fortunate Old Man
A Gaza-Israeli Progress Report
A Good Intention, Drowns Some Hopes
A Greeting for my Eye Doctor
A Haggis Repast
A Health Nut, Falling?
A Jester
A Last Stage
A Leaden History
A Love Dream
A Mad Rush to the End
A Mammalian (Human) Territorial Flaw
A Maple Syrup Thank You
A Marine Fantasy
A Moment from the Past
A Moment in an Elevator on the Second Floor
A Mystery Footprint
A New Country Called California!
A New Gaza Playa Report?
A New Perspective on Santa
A New Stab at Creating Abiogenesis-Life
A Note to a Daughter-in-Law
A Note to Harriet
A Pastoral (Bucolic) Sunday Visit
A Payback for being Abused?
A Plural Transgresses into a Singular
A Positive Point Towards Talking
A Possible Fate
A Prayer for All Tyrants
A Pseudo Peace (For Patrick)
A Quick Thought to a Swiss Friend Late at Night
A Radioactive Wasp Nest?
A Regrettable Decision?
A Rusophycus
A Sad Gerrymandering Flood
A Saturday Morning Spass
A Scottish Influence
A Shot and Then a Fire!
A Source of Emotion. (A true tale.)
A Story of the American Bullfrog
A Superfluous Opinion
A Surprise Visit!
A Ten Minute 'Peek' at a Kabuki Theatre Evolved into Three Hours!
A Text to an Old HS Fellow Student
A Text to Andy, a Former Student, now older and more mature
A Text to my Grandson
A Thanksgiving Tidbit
A Thought
A Thought for a Capable Woman
A Thought from the Dalai Lama
A Time to Decide
A Tiny Gift
A Tragedy Caused by a Loose Wire
A Tribute to Sandra Day O'Connor
A True Philosopher
A Twenty-first Century Human Dilemma
A Vietnam Memory
A Virtual Farm
Adumbrations of Death
African Origins
After Talking with my Friend, Jay
Afternoon of my 83rd Birthday (Train of Thoughts)
Aggression and Love
Aging in the Darkness of Night
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
AI and Honey Bees--New Introductions into Society
Alex Jeffery Pretti (1988 - 2026)
Alex Salmond (Former Scottish Prime Minister)
Alexei Navalny
Alien Enemies Act of 1798 -- 'Operation Aurora' (Trump)
Alive!
Amputations of Man and Beast
An Ambivalent Scooter Owner
An Atomic Tragedy
An Elder's Views on Aging, Learned While Living as a Youth, With Men Mentally Crippled from War
An Email to a Jewish Friend
An Eye for an Eye
An Interview Using the 'Wobbly Chair Test'
An Irony of War
An Old Biologist's Plea
An Omen
An Op vs a Hoop
An Unexpected Attack
An Unexpected Roll!
An Unidentified Invader
An Unintended Holiday Consequence
An Upper Trophic Level
Ancient Artists Proved Right!
And Then There is the 'New They'!
Anonymous
Another Dream Remembered
Another Twisted Bit of History
Another View of Death
Anthropocene Epoch
Ants as a Vector
Any Compensation for Palestinian Lands?
April; Coping with Less Rain
Are Audio Books a Form of Reading?
Are the Statue of Liberty's Words Now a Cliche?
Are We Floundering, Using the Name Halibut?
Are We in Climate Reversal with AI?
Are We Really Following the Correct Philosophy?
Are We Witnessing the Downfall of a Great Democracy?
Are White Camembert and Brie Doomed to Extinction?
Assault on Democracy?
At Dusk by my Table
At Last, my Love
Attempted Robbery
Australian Singer, Genesis Owusu
Author's Page
Autumnal Black Walnut
Avalie is Coming to Visit
Awake, Neanderthal You have migrated to a new time zone
Awareness
Baby Bones
Banning Shakespeare?
Basil's Sweet Look
Being Touched by an Elephant's Trunk
Bellwether
Benjamin Franklin and Canada as the 14th Colony
Benjamin Franklin's Family Bout with Smallpox
Bird Talk--Three Thousand Miles Apart
Birds Coping with the New Heat
Blacks and Country Music
Blind Devotion?
Bonobos and Humans
Book Banning
Bundles of Flowers
Butterfly Massacre
Butterfly Massacre--A Sequel
California's Newest State Symbol
Campangol (Campanyol)
Can a Monkey Really Read?
Can Revolution be Justified?
Can Slavery Really be Justified?
Cancer Demons
Caught by a Catfish!
Challenges
Challenges for a Professional Female Pilot
Chance, My Grandson
Changes
Chlorinated Chickens!
Christmas Alone
Christmas Owls, Nuptially Vocalizing
Christmas, 2025
Climate Change
Climate Panic
Cloth vs Paper?
Clothes
CLT--Cross Laminated Timber May Rejuvenate Use of Wood
Codfish Are Becoming Greatly Reduced in Size. An Additional Thought
Cold Drizzle
Columbus Was a Jew?
Coming to Terms with Hell
Communication Parameters of a New Generation
Compassionate Leadership
Comprehension
Condemned to a Possible Death Sentence?
Contemplation
Contentment After Eight Decades
Coping With the Climate Crisis
Creating a Conservation Easement
Creativity
Crunching a Singular into a Plural!
Cuisine and Shame
Damming the Damning
Dancing Days
Dangers of Following an Undesirable Leader
Danish Postal System Gone After 400 plus Years
Darian vs Darien / Any Connections?
David Attenborough
Dealing With Death
Dear Agave Plant
Dear Mr. Garamendi. US Representative. (Letter)
Dear Women
Deep Sea Mining of Polymetallic Nodules
Defecation
Demise of a Mother-Poet.
Deportation
Designing Bandages alla Betsy Ross
Dialects
Did Humans Really Build the Pyramids?
Did Neanderthals Have a Feeling of Ownership?
Did the Cave Artists Get the Hump Correct? (Another Glimpse)
Dig Your Canines into this One!
Diminution of Codfish in Our Food Chain
Dinosaur Bone
Dinosaur Footprint Hunting
Disrupters
Distribution of Energy
Do Not Forget Rosenlaui
Do Voters Choose Their Politicians OR Do the Politicians Choose Their Voters?
Does a Building Height Depict Who We Are?
Does Banning Things Ever Succeed?
Does This, My Dream, Reflect the State of the Present World?
Dog Walking
Domestication
Don't be Screwed!
Driverless Monsters
Drums Across the Ocean (1978)
Eco Distress
Egyptian Lady
Elena. Physical Therapist
Eleven Primaries Allow Flight
Elizabeth Vrba (1942 - 2025)
Ellie The Governor
Email to Bill
Email to Doris, a Former German Farm Student Intern
Emmett Till
Encounter With a Rattlesnake on the North Fork of the Yuba River
Encountering a Cobra while on Horseback. (Lesotho, Africa)
Entomophagy I
Entomophagy II
Environmental Trilogy Plus One
Eva
Evolution
Evolution Doesn't Exist! (Dogs must have come from an Omniscient Puff!)
Exaggeration or Untruth?
Exchange between two Philosophies
Facades
Fashion vs Function
Fathers' Day (15 June 2025)
Fences Needing Repair
Final Statement Made on Wyoming Deed Restrictions
Finding a Loose Cow
Fire on the Christmas Tree
First Shakespeare, Now Plato to be Outlawed?
Five-Year-Old MN Child Used to Lure Parent
Floating Beauty
Flowers for Marty
Flowers on an Unused Stove
Flowing Thoughts by the Flowing River
Flying I. Dream of Flying
Flying II. A Trip to Buzzards Bay
Flying III. At the Airport
Flying IV. The Interview
Flying IX. Landing a Cessna 150 on the Numbers
Flying V: After a long Hiatus
Flying VI. Flying Others
Flying VII. A Trip to Fort Collins, Colorado
Flying VIII. The Professor's Flight
Flying X. The Flight to Nowhere
Flying XI The Snowstorm
Flying XII. Night Flying
Flying XIII. Emergency Landings
Flying XIV. A Spray Application Demo
Foiled
For History's Sake
Frank the Milkman
Friday Night! (An 83-year-old's Perspective)
Friend or Foe: The Red Cedar
From Where Does He Come--'van' or 'von'?
Fundraising: Raising Remunerations for a Good Cause
Gaza
Genetic Captures
Glimpsing a Touch of the Sixth Extinction
Goli
Goli, The Warrior
Grasping onto a Future Past
Greatness
Green-dyed Food!
Grief Unveiled
Grooming May Be the Undoing of Vampire Bats
Happy Birthday (23 July) to Eric, 20 Year Old Son of Jessie and Ana Soto
Hats Which Define Us
Hear Me Dear People
Heat--The Silent Killer
Heaven And Earth
Herding Geese
Hidden Libraries
History Reveals Itself!
Hope is the Enemy of Courage
How Long a Bully?
How Might a Hindu Take the Story of Easter?
How Our Eye has Fared in the Jump from Sea to Land
How to be Bailed Out with Half a Turkey
How to Survive an Alligator!
How Wonderful to be so Royally Goosed!
Human Holding Pens
Human's Success on Planet Earth
Humanism
Humans, as Other Primates, Must Have Leaders, Idols, Stars, Heroes
I. Human-caused Evolutionary Changes - Tuskless Female Elephants in Mozambique
If Only, If Only
II. Human-caused Evolutionary Changes - Aggressive African Bees/Gentle European Bees
Immutable Species
In a Poet's Mind
In Anticipation of a Partial Solar Eclipse
Indigenous American Agriculture
Indohyus Becomes a Whale
Intraspecific Conflict
Invaders, Conquerors, and 'Gentle' Expansionists
Invaders!?
Is Humanism a Solution?
Is Juvenile Play Useful?
Is Our World Losing its Finest Democratic Republic?
Is Selection Our Mindless Life Guide?
Is the Sky Really Blue?
Is There Really a Singular 'THEY'?
Is This Another Form of Genocide?
It is Saturday
It's All in Your Mind
Jessie Soto
Juan the Basque
Just a Passing Thought
Just What are We all About?
Just Wondering
Kalahari and the Termite Mound (1975)
Katrina Devastates New Orleans
Key to Success
Kim from Montana
Kris Kristofferson -- A Look-A-Like?
Lady Justice
Lauretta, PA (A Physician Assistant)
Leland and Esther. (Wedding 2003)
Lengua
Lesotho--Where's That?
Lexington, Massachusetts
Libyan Desert Glass
Life Adaptable!
Lifespan
Like-mindedness or Absent-mindedness?
Little Dinosaurs at my Window
Making Peace
Man of the Earth--New Year's Thoughts
Marian
Marina
Marrow
Marshfield Woman. One
Marshfield Woman. Two
Mary Stoots. A Serendipitous Friend
Mason Bee vs the European Honeybee
Mass Deportation and the Cost to Society
May We not lose Our Joshua Trees!
Me or I?
Meditations
Memorial Day--May 2024
Memorial Day, 26 May 2025
Memories Elicited from a Folded Sarong
Mercury Dimes, Remaining
Might I have been a Coworker with Betsy Ross?
Mimicry
Mimicry Refined
Mohammed of Gaza
More Guns and More Gas
Music To My Ears, I. The Early Days
Music To My Ears, II. Middle Years; Antioch College
Music To My Ears, III. Later Years. Cornell
Music To My Ears, IV. Further Later Years; Turkey (now Turkiye)
Musical Similarities Over the Centuries
Must There Always be Perpetual War?
Mutation
Mutation Manifests Phylogeny
My Brother John
My Chickens and Chez Panisse Restaurant
My Dear Childhood Friend, Frances Brown
My Dear Friend Bob. An Ode to Robert Duca
My Dilemma
My Dream of the Golden-haired Microtus
My First Photo, Featuring a Flicker
My Haplogroup G on the Y Chromosome
My Holiday Beverage
My Lost, Saved Tooth
My Mount Monadnock Campers' Hike
My Neanderthal Kindred
My Neanderthal Past
My Ode to the Haggis
My Only 'Authentic' Sermon!
My Outer Body--A Petri Dish for Cancer
My Pictish Beast Tattoo
My Poems and Thoughts
My Relationship with Horace Mann
My Scottish Connection
My Text Encouragement to One, Fearful of Caves
My Timeline
My Verbal Rambles with Regan of Texas
My Wonderful Tree House
Myself Or Me?
Natalie Corona, Died While on Duty. 1996-2019
Nature AND Nurture
Neanderthals (and Early Homo sapiens) Could not Live on Mammoth Flesh Alone!
Needed Energy Power in Canada
Needless Killing
New Avian Competition on My Feeder
New Year's Eve
News Flash!!
Nicholas, the future Zoologist
Nikki: A Benevolent One or a Potential Dictatress?
Nora
Nora. Memories
Norumbega ('Belonging to Norway') -- The Site of Vinland?
Obsolete Hormones?
Ode to my Dentist
Oh, Dear Southern Alabama
Okto Mom--A Devoted Mother
On Ornaments and Clothing, with Easter in Mind
On the Edge of the Storm
On the Wall
On This Day Three Decades Ago--Our 4 July
One Ear and the Other
One More New Year's Eve, Following Thousands
Only Two Sexes!
Orientation to Our World
Origins of Spoken Language
Our Attraction to Flowers
Our Coevolution with the Cat
Our Darwin's Tubercle (or Point)
Our Diastemas
Our Elders. To the Young Ones Around Me
Our Fellow Bird Vocalizations
Our Future?
Our Gladiator History
Our Holy Land
Our Honey Bee
Our Huge New Battleships
Our Human Family Tree
Our Marijuana Dogs
Our Mother Seas
Our National Mindset
Our Preferences of Beauty
Our relations with world events
Our Second Amendment
Our Sun
Our Sun
Our Sun-Star
Our Tree Shrew Affair
Our Two Critical Compromises
Out Of Africa
Overcoming the Impossible
Paper Whites Responding to the Rain
Paul, the South African
Perhaps the Fastest Evolving Animal in the US!
Permafrost
Pheasants on a Swedish Lawn
Pierre's Pancake
Pigeons. Also Called Rock Doves (Pigeons) or Feral Pigeons
Pill bugs and Trilobites
Playful Orcas?
Playing Chess with Tariffs
Political Order
Possibly True?
Prayer of a Viking
PREDATE--a Josh
Procrastination
Proper Treatment of the Vanquished
Pugnacious News
Puking Carbon
Pyramid Meditation
Quiet Counter Revolution
R3 Food Dye
Radiation and Half a Beard
Radioactive Rhinoceroses?
Railroads in My Life
Rare Earth Metals
Rationalizations
Rationalizing Age
Reaching Out to Those 'Others'
Recognition of the Skewed Nose
Reconciliation or (just) Recognition?
Recyling
Relationships
Relationships 12 October 2025. 1150 Hours
Relationships 27 October 2025. 1716 Hours
Remembrance of WWII and Vietnam. An Email from Loren
Replications
Revelations of a Birdfeeder Assumptions Corrected
Road Traffic Influence on Bird Wing Length
Roadkill
Robert Burns, the Day after His Birthday
Rowan Amongst Our Flowers
Sally Sobottka, My Friend
Sartorial Thoughts
Scotexican Food Mix Proposal!
Search for Purpose
Seeking One Who Has Gone
Seta
Seta
Several Modern Sources for Instant Death
Shortsightedness?
Slavery--Here?--In OUR History?
So Many Choices are Dividing Us
So, Who Has Suffered Most?
Sole or not a Sole?
Solitary Confinement
Solitude
Some General 'Rules' to Ponder. (Written With B. Franklin in Mind.)
Some Thoughts
Sounds for a Birder
Sports - To Be or Not To Be
Stirring up CO2
Story Telling
Strange Footprints
Strong People
Subsiding Cities
Sulphur Butterfly Migration
Summer Splashes of Red
Sunrise
Supper in My House! (An email.)
Surveying a Pond Base
Swimming the Bosphorus
Tariffs on Chicken Feet??
Tariffs--A Remedy for All Things?
Technological Augmentation of Testosterone
Technology May be Our Salvation (At Least for a While)
Telah, the Basotho Pony
Telah's Sad Undoing. Part 2
Temporal 'Fight or Flight'
Text Exchanges--A Place to Stay in Dublin
Texted Thoughts to a Well Digger's Wife
The 6th--A Day of Shame
The Aardvark Hole
The Abortion Argument
The Additional Value of Postage Stamps
The African Bee (1969-1973)
The Afterlife
The Airborne Turkeys
The Aurochs Permeates Everywhere
The Beaching Enigma
The Buffleheads' Return
The Bumblebee; a California Fish?
The Canaries We Need to Watch
The Christmas Bird Count (A Christmas Remembrance)
The Connecting Limb
The Consequences
The Creation of Dogs--Just Child's Play
The Darkening Arctic
The Deafening Silence of Quiet Snowfall
The Depression of an Elder
The Dog That Went Too Far--An Allegory
The Egyptian Vulture
The Elephant and the Tree (1977)
The End of Yet Another Golden Age?
The Enigma of the Eight-tailed Eagle!
The Enigma of the Florida Key Deer
The Enlightenment of a Man
The Epitome of Life
The Fall Risk
The Fallacy of Pardoning Turkeys
The Fate of Two Sons
The Fire Pole
The Florence Nightingale Pledge
The Frightening New Adolescent Brain
The Fulgurite Sitting Before Me
The Gandhi Influence on Me
The Glitter Problem
The Good Book--Book of Wisdom
The Good Book--Genesis
The Hidden Perils of 'New' Technology
The Homeland
The House
The Human Third Age
The Human Urge to Move
The Hunter-Gathers
The Inside Windchime
The Intriguing Trilobite
The Irish Stand for the Palestinians
The Joy in Shape
The LA Fires
The Labyrinth
The Longevity Bottleneck Hypothesis
The Lugging of Coal Clinkers
The Making of a Stone Carver
The Mason (Inspired by Jay W.)
The Menstruating Man
The Metric Conversion Act
The Momentum of Speech
The Monarch
The Mystery of Why Domestic Cats Have Vertical Pupils
The New Palestinian Nation--A Proposal
The Numbers in My Childhood
The Octopus
The Olfactory Mammal
The Olive Saga
The Pacific Pond Turtle
The Penny is Gone
The Pictish Rebel
The Plight of the Hellbender
The Poppies of Elsinore, California
The Position of the Eagles' Wings
The Question
The Racing Fillies. The Passing By of the Daughters
The Rearranged Tearoom
The Reverent Omnivore
The Revolutionary of the Pen
The Rewilding of Humanity
The Right-Handed Warthog
The Right-Handed, Left-Sided Elbow Phenomenon
The Rivers Turn Red--A Winter Solstice Tale
The Romantic Tumbleweed
The Sacred Piano Keyboard
The Scottish Bank
The SinkHole
The Six Ring Benzine Menace
The Softness of the German 'Trost'
The Struggling Polar Bear
The Synergy of Human Girls and Their Dogs
The Taco Bell / Voice
The Tattooer
The Termite Feast
The Tipping Point
The Tragic Separation by War
The Tusk
The Unfolding of Classical Music's Morphology
The USS Constitution: Recollections of a Boy on One of Our Greatest Ships
The Veterinarian's 'Hippocratic Oath'
The Vicarious Conductor
The Visionary
The Weight of Two X Chromosomes
The Whistled 'S'
The Whistled 'S'; An Addendum
The White-crowned Sparrow
The White-crowned Sparrow--A Biannual Reminder in my Calendar (Dedicated to Melissa)
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Wisdom of the Inexperienced
The Wolf Captured
The Wonderful Horseshoe Crab
The World's Panama Canal
There was Chicxulub and now Nadir?
There's Carbon dioxide, But What of Methane?
They 'Otter' get it Right - Another Dentition Story
Thirty-five
Those Illegals!
Thoughts of you
Three Choices
Time Revisited
Time Slowed to Almost a Standstill
To a Celtic-Cuban
To a Fellow Human
To a Mentor
To Andrew: The Dual Existence of our Saturdays' Time Spans
To be as Smart as a Corvid!
To Coal or not to Coal?
To Dick Miller, my Friend. d. 2009
To Don, My Brother-in-Law
To Hold on for Nine Years
To Ingegerd
To Julia
To Lady Sultan
To live by the Sword
To Meal Creators!
To My Dermatologist, Christie Carroll, et al
To My Two Sons
To No One
To Paul, Who Would Understand
To See or To Hear; And Then There is Walking
Tooth Structure Makes a Difference
Trapped by Age
Trees and Turkeys
Treichel
Trilobites and Sea Slugs, Equal Their Accumulation of Species Numbers
True Death or Nature's 'Coverup'?
Turkiye, Celebrating 100 Years Today
Turning the Tables on a Mess Together
Two Approaches to Climate Change
Two Canaries to Watch
Two Declarations for Freedom
Two Invaders, Meeting
Two Possibilities
Two Types of Blackmail
Two Very Sexy Geese
Ukraine
Uncle Bill, a Young NY Farmer During WWII.
United Columns
Unrequited Honey
USA!
Usurpation of a Family Name
Valentine's Day, 2026
Variation on a Theme
Veronika, the Tool User
Viva Flamenco!
Voice Changes
Walking Away
Wasting Food
Watching a Wild Turkey Harvest Seed
Water Levels--Rising and Falling!
Water, Water Everywhere, but For How Long?
Watermelon Snow
We are having a Telephone Speech Crisis
We the Nation
Were Our Teeth Always in Our Mouths?
Whaling out Names!
What a Difference an 'E' Makes
What all Life could be
What Are We Governing?
What is Beauty?
What is Sacred?
What is Yourn is 'Meen' or What is Yours is Mine
What of the Pictish Stone Creatures' Orientations?
What Would Jesus Do?
When All Have Departed
When Do Children Play?
Where does Prejudice End?
Where has HAVE gone?
White Ash
White Boards
White Streets?!?
White-crowneds Juxtaposed with the Great Horneds
Who Really Makes the Choice?
Who Will Win?
Who's Got Milk?
Who's Really in Charge?
Why a Pet Rock? Have a Trilobite!
Why are Men Deciding These Things?
Why do Female Mammals Live Longer than Males?
Why Do We Have a Leap Year?
Why Do We Talk to Ourselves?
Why has English Lost 'Thou'?
Why the Denial?
Why the Difference in Human and Neanderthal Faces?
Will K Cars be Our New Coffins?
Will TACO Make a Difference?
Windchimes by my Window
Wings of Birds--Thoughts of a Modern Homo
Wisdom Out of Africa
Wish to have a More Exact Calendar?
Woman Power
Wonderful Tony
Wouldn't it be Wonderful
Yet Another Biological Team
Yet Another Plight of Women
Yet Another School Shooting
Yolanda
Your Umbilical Scar
Zebra Stripes