Electric Vehicle Charging While Going 60
I read a story in the WSJ about an interesting twist on a popular topic, charging electric vehicles, using sensors in the road to power while running.
Ponderings
Trying to Make the Molding Fit in My Old House
My kitchen remodeling project hits snags when we once again realize that the house walls are never very straight and putting molding is tough.
Vaccine Dreams and a New Kitchen for 2021
The vaccine to rid us all of the dreaded COVID has been administered, my daughter Kate has had the jab and hundreds more shots are being given out every day.
Good Riddance to 2020
Good riddance to a terrible year when the Pandemic kept the whole world from traveling and enjoying things like hugs, sharing meals and crossing borders.
May 25, 2020: Ten Years of Memorial Day Memories
Memorial Day 2020. A time when I reflect on the places I was and the posts that I wrote at this same time over the past seven years.
May 17, 2020: Lights at the End of the Grim Tunnel
Last night we had plans. The first plans in weeks, we made a date to go have a picnic at Barton’s Cove, just as the sun was beginning to set and the light was at its most brilliant. We are starting to do more take out, last night we went […]
May 10, 2020: Getting More Adjusted to This
It’s been nine weeks of this total closure, people at home. Reflecting on travel to Italy in 2005 with my parents, a highlight.
Disappointing Myself During the Quarantine
One of the unexpected joys of the 2020 quarantine is the chance — no, the obligation–to keep in touch with people via these fun Zoom conference calls, or just on the phone.
April 26, 2020: Irrigation Hoses Going into the Garden
Today’s date means the same lousy thing in any part of the U.S. and around the world. It’s a day in the midst of the famous pandemic
April 18, 2020: More than a Month into the Pandemic
April 18, 2020 . Written during the height of the pandemic when everything possible is closed, no one is working and fear is all around us. We are deep into the thick of it now, April 18, 2020, this unexplainable, mutual pain that the entire world is facing. It’s nothing […]
Dad’s Journal Notebooks Keep Sucking Me In
A Man Who Shared His Thoughts and Told People What He Thought of Them Notebooks of my father. I have a bag of notebooks, journals by my father Nathaniel Hartshorne, that I’ve pored over and I hope to write about. This bag of notebooks, the collected journals of my father […]
Beaver Blockade at GCC
Beavers are creating dams and have blocked the culvert that takes water across the Greenfield Community College driveway, it might overflow.