I think what we all hoped, naively at the beginning, that we would find one culprit. It’s pretty clear that that’s not the case — there are lots of different culprits that interact. It’s a complicated problem. I think it’s fair to say that we’re making...
Their hearts are sometimes so full of rancor that they no longer have the capacity to love. Almost twenty years ago my father and I were asked by a colleague to visit an acquaintance who claimed she could no longer love. Jane's husband lay dying, and she longed to comfort him, yet ...
(lots of costly hoa fines and rework), and eventually it escalated to a pack of corehounds “accidentally” getting loose and taking a massive dump on Blizz’s prize winning rosebushes, nearly killing them (rosebushes are almost indestructible), allowing Square Enix’s rose bushes to win the...
Once the initial nest is fashioned from secreted wax, and tiny nectar pots are built and filled, the queen sits on her eggs very much like a hen. She keeps the brood warm with her body and drinks from her nectar pots until the young worker bees emerge from their cells. The chores are...
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -- James Thurber
I remember my mom telling me years ago, I was like, "Why are pirates always drunk?" Right. Typical little kid question. And she, I think, actually found the answer, which was, "You can't really keep water on a ship, but you can keep rum. And they're like, 'Well, we got to...
In Great Britain, some hedgerows are hundreds of years old. Farmers maintain them by cutting out old growth and occasionally trimming. If a gap happens due to a plant dying, they put another in its place. The result is a thick fence that even cattle can’t penetrate. Try these good fenc...