Time and Again
I've somehow for years had the idea that Jack Finney's 1970 novel Time and Again (which I hadn't read) was...
Another FBI-file update
In today's mail: Another envelope from the FBI! In response to my FOIA request about my father, which I filed...
Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Easy quick intro to contacting your members of Congress
Yesterday, I attended a really useful-to-me presentation titled "Activism 101: Finding your voice in government," about how to engage with...
Duolingo Spanish progress update
Every so often as I go through Duolingo Spanish lessons, I hit a wall. Right at the start, for example,...
News distortion example: AI, competition, and cooperation
An example of how news gets distorted: DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), published an interesting and...
Helen describes herself (1931)
Among my old family papers is a folder containing a handwritten document by my grandmother Helen, in which she described...
Pete Seeger on helping
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...
Turning pattern into preparation
Every now and then, I stop at a stoplight behind a long line of cars, and I see a homeless...
Please nominate for the Hugo awards
Nominations are now open for this year's Hugo awards. You can nominate if you are a member of last year's...
My year in books
In 2016, I read 172 books; an average of roughly one every two days. Well, okay, when I say “read,”...
Fingernails
I've bitten my nails all my life. (Well, and picked at them and tore them by hand; not always with...