The Night My Basset Hound Almost Burned Me To Death On an Archaeological Dig
There is another funny story about Triste the Bassett Hound during this trip. The mosquitoes were pretty bad. This section of North Florida is very hilly, with very non-porous red clay. So it seemed that every bottomland was a Cypress slough filled with water. I won’t call them swamps. You might. They bred mosquitoes. To […]
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Rainbow Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, […]
Boston Drivers
My Dad owned and drove his own taxicab from 1952 to 1956. The first month I was in graduate school in 1973 Mom and Dad came to visit. It wasn’t long before Dad figured out how bad Boston drivers can be. “If I lived here, I’d get an old car and boy, would I have […]
How much oil does it take to bring you your water?
Probability Zero
Thirteen years ago I wrote my one and only effort at fiction. Analog, the science fiction magazine, had a feature of very short stories called “Probability Zero”. I do not know WHY I never submitted it, but I have just come across it among my old papers and have decided to publish it myself here. […]
Taxes Fight Fires
Why wasn’t Newfoundland part of the Canadian Federation until 1949?
Canadian Confederation was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867. On March 31, 1949, it became the 10th and most recent province to join the Canadian Confederation as “Newfoundland”. How’s this for […]
Philip’s Luddite Museum
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