If you have enjoyed these, could you all please help me?
I started all this twenty years ago just for myself, but a few friends I shared the stories with really loved them and wanted more. I spoke in the Opening Act about why there had been a hiatus before beginning again this past year. I have been urged to pay various web services to advertise […]
Travels with Phil Three – The World’s Biggest Chessboard
Maybe not, but they claim it is! I am NOT a good chess player but enjoy it enough that I carry a rollup rubber chess board in my car with a bag of cheap plastic chess pieces! At one job in Miami, two colleagues and I retired to a park every day with our sandwiches […]
Why I spell G-d with a dash in it
In Judaism the four Hebrew letters (referred to as the Tetragrammaton) that spell out the name of G-d are NEVER pronounced. We say Adonai, The Lord, or other substitutes when it appears in the liturgy. Why? It is referred to by the Rabbis I have known as the Ineffable Name of G-d. But the real […]
The Ecology of the Everglades
This was a summary of the research we conducted. It is an excellent discussion of the ecology of the Everglades. From some hand-written corrections in my inimitable scrawl on the manuscript I know I contributed to authoring it. The Everglades is commonly considered a swamp. It is not. It is a broad, shallow, slowly-moving river […]
Anthropologists Can Too Have a Sense of Humor
By now most of you should know I was an anthropologist. When I left graduate school ABD (all but dissertation) many people expressed sympathy for not being done. “They didn’t make me check my brains at the door when I left” That part of my education has stood me in good stead in everything I […]
Travels with Phil Two – No Rats in Me! – New York City
New York City is my favorite place to be a tour guide. There are SO many unusual things NOT listed on the tourist maps. This is one of my favorites! 420 Lexington Avenue, NYC, one block from Grand Central Station. There was a time when Architects added unnecessary but wonderful embellishments to their buildings. There […]
Cinderellas
By now most of you know I have been a serious stamp collector for the past 39 years, after a 17-year break in my early adulthood after having collected as a child. There is a field of stamp collecting which is one of my favorites. Cinderella LOOKED like a scullery maid but was really a princess. […]
Travels with Phil – The Boston Mass Avenue Bridge
I do business in 19 states, and as I travel on business I always give myself at least a day where I am going to go to parks and museums and local sites. I have so found it fun when someone tells me, for example, that they have never been in New York City, to […]
Interesting Links Day 5: Questionable Content
Note: Some comics in Questionable Content contain NSFW adult themes. Click the comic to be taken to the publishing site.
Interesting Links Day 4: The Perry Bible Fellowship
Note: Some comics in The Perry Bible Fellowship contain NSFW adult themes. Click the comic to be taken to the publishing site.