Open thread 5/20/2025
Rainy rainy spring.
Continue reading →Rainy rainy spring.
Continue reading →Here we go; lots of news: (1) Ex-hostage Edan Alexander says that the terrorists treated him better after Trump’s election: Alexander’s aunt, Sharon Senyor, told the Ynet news site on Wednesday that “he said that since Trump took power his … Continue reading →
The blog had been going quite smoothly for a few months, but today it ran into that connectivity snag again. I spent some frustrating time talking to my hosting service about it. As often happens, they blamed it on something … Continue reading →
Some people are irrepressible:
Continue reading →When I was young, my mother still called the refrigerator the icebox:
Continue reading →[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of my traditional Mother’s Day post. It was written while my mother was still alive.] Okay, who are these three dark beauties? A hint: one of them is one of the very first pictures … Continue reading →