BurningbirdTo get my degree in psychology, I had to establish a specific hypothesis and then design and conduct experiments to either prove or disprove it. I based my hypothesis on the work conducted by Dr. Martin Seligman on Learned Helplessness. Dr. Seligman’s theory is that an organism (dogs, rats, college sophomores, or other), when exposed to […]
We drove down a street lined with tall trees, expansive green lawns, and gardens full of roses and tiger lilies. Along the way, neighbors were hanging red, white, and blue bunting and putting small flags near sidewalks and under trees. The weather was cooler because of a storm earlier in the day so the windows […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As some of you know, I collect rare minerals, in traditional crystalline habit, thumbnail sized, and with matrix. All of which is just a fancy way of saying that I collect crystals. I started the collection years and years ago with a watermelon tourmaline cross-section, soon joined by dioptase, azurite, […]
Sheila Lennon is celebrating both her birthday (Happy Birthday!) and her two-week vacation by creating a new, experimental weblog, The Reader. And folks, I’m telling you – Sheila has a Voice. How’d we get from bragging about 2.6 readers per newspaper sale to newspaper websites that demand personal information about each reader to get beyond the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a week of trying to get DSL setup and having it work for exactly one day; and after a week of Earthlink not returning calls or following through on promised actions, I’m throwing in the towel. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as if any other DSL carriers serve my particular […]