The Phillies-Rays game was suspended after the Rays tied it in the top of the sixth.  When they'll resume is anyone's guess - the weather map sure doesn't look auspicious for tonight.  IMHO, it's be nice if the delay went long enough that I could catch up on my sleep - and Hamels could pick [...] Click to continue reading...

Guess we missed out on the basil this year!  This morning there's serious frost everywhere.  Stern frost.  Dour frost.  A layer of it whitens the windows and powders the ground.  The nasturtiums still look miraculously green, but the zinnias and cosmos are brown.  November brown.  This frost will disappear as the sun rises and warms [. Click to continue reading...

I read on The Writer's Almanac that it's William Carlos Williams' birthday today.  He wrote one of my favorite poems - The Red Wheelbarrow. so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. It makes me think of looking into crystalline water ... absolutely transparent and absolutely mysterious! Click to continue reading...

Here we go!  As the USWNT soccer news slowly dwindles, the news on the political front picks up.  Here's a link to Michelle Obama's speech from last night (text and video), and here's a link to video and an article with Obama's daughters interacting with (and interrupting) him last night.  And below, a new Obama [. Click to continue reading...

Tonight's full moon will look unusually large. Apparently that is a big fat moon illusion - and one that is particularly pronounced in June. Speaking of June and moons ... what was that movie with Cher that had the word moon in the title? Anybody know? Maybe it'll come to me [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "June Moon Looms", url: "http://www. Click to continue reading...