I write these posts all too often as catastrophe strikes, and it’s heart breaking. Here’s how you can help those in need. Donate to the Red Cross. Mission Statement The… Read more How to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey →
Norman Rockwell, 1965, Oil on canvas Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are suited for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA loaned Norman Rockwell a… Read more imagine getting into these costumes… →
I’ve started taking walks just after six a.m. Yesterday, when I turned the corner were my street starts to climb into the foothills, I saw the windows of a Spanish… Read more Where I live it’s bloody hot! L.A. experiencing warmest year since records started being kept in 1877. →
The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowd sourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of… Read more “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet →
The storm — blustery in some places, blinding in others — was a swirling, sprawling mass with a reach of nearly 1,000 miles. It had already largely immobilized Washington, Baltimore… Read more Winter storm shuts down Manhattan… The Flatiron Building, the first skyscraper in NY under a blanket of white, 1905 →
NASA TV to Provide Live Feed of Sunday’s Supermoon Eclipse For the first time in more than 30 years, you can witness a supermoon in combination with a lunar eclipse.… Read more Supermoon Sunday! →
This is a picture one of my older brothers texted me on Friday moments before he got a mandatory evacuation order as the western side of the Sierras went up… Read more California is burning… →
A lovely young friend recently gave me a hot new piece of science fiction to read (and you know, my darlings, I’m all for whatever floats your literary boat). However,… Read more Sending star shine and sweet dreams from the motion picture capital of the world, Bos-Angeles →
