As a serial monogamist, I've been involved with, married to, or in a serious relationship with, a relatively small quantit...

          Ginny's title the 7 th day of this month-long videorama is A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event .           How apro...

...one floor below me you don't even know me, I love you...           -  Caught my Mother in a lie; began ...

          The prefixes great- and grand- before "parent" measure both the distance along a family tree and (oft-times inappropri...

          Watching Christina Aguilera sing I Am Beautiful will chime no more emotional bells than Andy Rooney creaking I Am Elderly o...

          There are certain beats, chord combinations, and rhythm syncopations which strike us viscerally.  I think everyone should becom...

          Until the summer of 1990, there was nothing in my Song You Fucking Hate category.  Sure, there were (and are) entire genre...

          There are some high-quality writers I eagerly look forward to reading.  Andrew Vachss, Dean Koontz, and Malcolm Gladwell are th...

          This radiation dose chart (created by Randall Monroe of xkcd ) explains in layman's terms some of the various sources of radi...

          The priest was calmly explaining reality to us.  I understood most of the words.  He was speaking English.  But.  As his senten...

donate to Red Cross artwork of notable significance: Laundromat Pantograph HUSTLE daytrip detritus (cat pic) Unauthorized P...

          During my first tooth-brushing decades I heard so many different theories about the origins of Daylight Savings Time... I stopped ...

A personal A-thru-Z of things ranging from minor irritants to the despicably horrid.           If you want to know what's really go...

Make a Flake

Scientific Chick provided the six-image heart X-ray used to create this digital rendering.  Thank you, Julie.

If one can have a favorite song for almost one's whole life . . . this is mine. You might also like to know: This is where I was at ...