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The Greatness of the Beast
What’s so great about our 1965 Ford F100 pickup truck (aka The Beast)? Let me count the ways: The truck has a manual choke. What’s so fantastic about this? Young people have no idea what it is. This vehicle will never be stolen except… Continue Reading “The Greatness of the Beast”
Making a Beauty of the Beast
When I was a tiny girl, televised car shows showed shapely, scantily-clad, young women dangling themselves over vehicles. This behavior utterly confused my childish mind. Finally, I matured enough to understand that the consumer was supposed to confound lust for the luscious woman with… Continue Reading “Making a Beauty of the Beast”
The Eleventh Hour
At the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, hostilities ceased in one of history’s most brutal conflicts. One hundred years has passed since the Armistice – the moment that ended a war jingoistically known as The Great War, optimistically known… Continue Reading “The Eleventh Hour”
The Beast
As a newly-wed, my husband lusted after an SUV. I reacted as any bride would to a rival and quashed his excessively expensive vehicular ardor. However, it is easier to supplant a want than to eliminate it; so, I encouraged him to buy a… Continue Reading “The Beast”
Oohs and Aahs
I suffer from an ugly prejudice. Only scientific disciplines derived from physics or chemistry are important to me. Anything related to biology is rigorously ignored. I admit it’s rather shameful to neglect a subject I dropped as soon as I could. It must have… Continue Reading “Oohs and Aahs”
A Pythagorean Problem
There is no mathematical theorem used more in my daily life than the Pythagorean Theorem. Even my non-mathematical friends make second-hand use of the theorem by calling me with a query about how much material they need for a project involving a triangle (or… Continue Reading “A Pythagorean Problem”
I am past my prime…
I am past my prime. Yesterday, I was not. With the passage of just one day, I’m a year older. What a cruel trick! Surely it’s a mathematical impossibility. How can time contract so? Am I living in a gravitational anomaly? Yesterday, I was… Continue Reading “I am past my prime…”
Wimpy Woman
For some reason or the other, I never included pull-ups in my exercise routine until my early forties. With a modest degree of effort, I was soon able to complete three sequential pull ups. Although I was rather proud of myself, my offspring remained… Continue Reading “Wimpy Woman”
Pondering π
Pi is such a lovely little thing. It’s shape (π) could easily be mistaken for an Ikea-designed seat, structured – oh so elegantly – to support our posterior. Isn’t it remarkable that this delightfully formed Greek letter has come to mean so much more… Continue Reading “Pondering π”
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