Last night Elijah and I were talking about a question that has been floating around the back of my mind: what do blind people dream of? Not people who have lost their vision due to accidents or macular degeneration, but people who developed having no sense of sight whatsoever. This came up due to a [...]
Yesterday I took Quark in for his annual checkup, anticipating that all he’d need are shots to make sure he doesn’t get rabies and give me some awesomely radical cat brain disease. When the vet pried him out of the confines of the loathed carrier, he took one look at him and said, “Hey, your [...]
My relationship with coffee ended with a whimper, not a bang. It used to be that I never got my fill, sipping from the black well as if it were bottomless and the flow of caffeine would never, ever end. Gradually, the mug emptied and one day I didn’t come back for a refill. “Coffee [...]
When my sister informed me that my mother had relocated to Houston, I was not terribly excited about the news. I’d never been to Texas, but I had been told nothing good by any of my friends and associates. My boss calls Houston “Hellston.” My old roommate Paul, who’d made frequent physics related trips to [...]
