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A meritocracy is only as good as the people deciding what constitutes merit. How do you know if you have done well at an assigned task? Us...

Here's a picture of the full moon rising above Commercial Street on Portland, Maine's waterfront. The cellist and I were dining at T...

Scruffy, our adopted terrier, has left behind the touchingly grateful phase of his assimilation. He now feels safe to reveal the less endear...

After several years thinking about it I picked up a nice starter mandolin to add to my musical endeavors. Tuned like the violin, it can pl...

These tiny towers, suggestive of something from the desert southwest, were built by the little red ants living in the sandy soil next to...

Daisy the cat alerted the cellist to the arrival of this young bear. The cellist called me quietly to the window. We did have to protest w...

No one likes the idea that the NSA is spying on them, but it is a natural outgrowth of the Cold War. In the 1950s the idea that spies and in...