The Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday, since I was a little kid in a small town with a parade and relay races and fireworks over the beach at night. The fireworks exploded so loud I called them thundercrackers. One year the folks out on the barge bungled the order and shot [...]
Collected Road Thoughts: -words without translation — examples include the German weltschmerz and the Korean word for a certain kind of stress -societies that cannot be taught mathematics because of their lack of a number system and also the wonder of a new human (baby) applying their learned numbers to real-world things, like pieces of [...]
Driving up to Petaluma, I passed an 18-wheeler hauling the broken-down rides from the county fair, which ended a few days prior. I half expect to see little Pete and Artie tussle with some waves, but it’s still only July. Phew!