Category Archives: Ponderings on the Meaning of Things

Once I began using a desk top computer on a regular basis in my practice in the early 1980′s, I quickly realized that my ability to deliberate over pending decisions was being impaired. As the speed and capacity of computers … Continue reading →

I am not a veteran, but that does not mean that I lack an appreciation for the sacrifices that so many of our fellow countrymen have made over the years while serving in our armed forces. There is a story … Continue reading →

It is early this Christmas morning and, as is my habit, I am awake long before the others enjoying the quiet and the anticipation. Strangely, in a time of shared and extended family, this is the time of Christmas I … Continue reading →

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. William Carlos Williams We are snowed in at our house in Humptulips County. We haven’t seen this much snow in our County in recent … Continue reading →

Steve Inskeep: “What does it mean to be American?” Junot Diaz: “It is a question that as individuals and as a country we wrestle with every day. It’s the wrestling with that question that defines us, not any of the … Continue reading →

“Oh good. Only 118,673,465 blogs still up” Gray Trudeau, Doonesbury, Sunday October 19, 2008 I have enjoyed posting on this blog and expect that I will continue to do so with fair consistency – weather, work load, other singular distractions … Continue reading →

“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging … Continue reading →