i live in a hot spot
John Denver proclaimed it "almost heaven", but a group of geoscientists are implying it's a little more like the opposite. Most of the rest of …
Geophysics
standing stones in the (inland) sea
Though I don't like to admit it, I grew up in Michigan a quarter mile from Lake Huron. I also have thing for shipwrecks and …
le fleur ephemeral
Some folks might find the purpled prose of Edgar Allan Poe a trifle overwrought by today’s standards, but he’s experienced a mysterious resurgence of popularity …
jen-luc versus the volcano
Things have been a bit subdued at the cocktail party in part because Jen-Luc Piquant is tres desolee at the passing of Sir Edmund Hillary …
asphalt jungle
In 1769, Gaspar Portola, the Spanish governor of Baja California, led an excursion across the Los Angeles River and down what is now Wilshire Boulevard …
shake, rattle and roll
So there I was, mid-Sunday morning of a long holiday weekend, playing a few rounds of Scrabble on my computer (and totally kicking my computer …