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Probably the best essay on Thanksgiving was written by Jon Carroll for the San Francisco Chronicle, who reprinted it every year. It sums...

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." Rabindraneth Tagore, Bengali poet

Good luck on your quest for a new adventure. Just concentrate on the characters, and let them tell you their stories. Mark Twain said it...

True, now that I come to think of it. The best write-up I've seen on this whole Atlantis business is from Cecil Adams, who agrees with...

I was once stuck at an airport for 24 hours, waiting for a charter airline to get a new engine installed. The flight was a...

Bon voyage, dear. I hope all goes well.

The train don't stop here anymore.

Probably me. (What? Just 'cos I don't eat too much chocolate doesn't mean I don't indulge sometimes). ;) But only if I can deliver...

Oh, but they are. They tell the story. Of course I know I create them, but it is amazing how far they will go when given the opportunity.

Exactly right. And that's the essence of scientific process. It's a method of examination, not a system of beliefs. And its fundamental...

I'm not sure that truth is limited to rationality. I believe that emotions can be true, too. This gets into the notion of subjective...

So I guess we are back at the old and Biblical query, "what is truth?" Because I would postulate that every rational person seeks...

Good way of putting it, and I hope I follow this pattern, too. But I am afraid there are a lot of people whose frame of reference is so...

Here's a random thought for you: The cleverest flies are the ones that always land on the fly-swatter.

I confess to a fondness for semi-sweet chocolate chips. That, and Three Musketeers bars, are my main sources of chocolate. A friend of...