From the Back Porch
Books
Whenever I hear anyone speak of a “slow computer” or that “this printer takes forever” I visualize robed monks sitting before their desks with...
The Dirt on Nicky
Names of things
Did you ever wake up at 2:30 a.m. and wonder, “Wait a minute! Why do we call it a snapdragon?” Me neither,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
July 29: In 1786, the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, the Pittsburgh Gazette, was published; in 1920, the first transcontinental airmail flight took...
The Reel News
Pictured is Bill Hiddle from Oklahoma, with this awesome 23½ in. Brown trout, caught with guide Austin of Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service.
Fishing conditions...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week July 29 – August 4, 2026
South & North Nodes - Direction & Destiny – Past & Present/Future
There are many potent changes occurring in the heavens these days, signifying...
The Coffee Table
The smoke and the smokescreen
I use Artificial Intelligence (AI) every day. Mostly to learn new words or check my spelling. And, of course, to...
Esoteric astrology as news for week July 22 – 28, 2026
Shatter Dissolve Illumine Refine Create – outer planets in conversation
This week is so potent that it’s a challenge to write about it all. Jupiter,...
The Coffee Table
Old and Cool
I’m so old I grew up without an awareness of air conditioning. It existed—the Almighty Google says the first residential A/C unit was...
Dinner for Six
Dominic Fabis is a long-term resident and massage therapist who has been making people feel better for the past
30 years at the Eureka...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Argentina has implied evidence of really, really early humans – cut marks on animal bones indicate butchering by using stone tools (a human activity)...