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Pssst, buddy, wanna buy some “investment grade” baseball cards from the late...
It is impossible to overestimate how truly worthless these cards happen to be In my basement storage area, I have a trunk full of investment grade mostly worthless baseball cards from the late 1980s....
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My first storm chase tour, May 2008
Six years ago this month, I was embarking on one of the great adventures of my life: A week-long storm chase tour, sponsored by Tempest Tours, a professional storm chase tour company. Okay, so maybe I...
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Geek out: A visit to the National Postal Museum
From Great Britain, the first adhesive postage stamp (All photos: DY, 2014) During a quick trip to Washington, D.C. to speak at a program sponsored by the American Psychological Association’s Center...
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Pursuing your passion (realism edition)
If only!!! The title of Marsha Sinetar’s Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow (1989) is perhaps the world’s easiest eight-word commencement speech, and it has been repeated, mantra-like, in...
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Throwback Thursday: Boyhood summers spent managing big league baseball teams
Box cover for RGI’s Gil Hodges’ Pennant Fever (photo: DY) Late in my grade school years, I discovered a world of baseball board games that simulated the National Pastime through sophisticated play...
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Singing in the New Year
Performing a Rodgers & Hammerstein classic at open mic night (Photo courtesy of Adeline Moya) In looking back at 2015, one of the highlights for me was doing more singing. Previously I’ve written...
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Memo to self: Experiences, not possessions, bring greater happiness
Northern Colorado, storm chase tour (Photo: DY, 2012) Over the weekend I was fiddling around with some photos using the editing tools on my computer, when I reminded myself of an important lesson,...
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Will I ever again be a Mad Scientist?
One of my favorite boyhood books was Bertrand R. Brinley’s The Mad Scientists’ Club (1965), a collection of short stories about a group of young science geeks in the fictional town of Mammoth Falls....
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My late 20th century middlebrow center of gravity
Deliciously burning tops of mouths since 1974 (photo: Stouffers.com) Sometimes I like to scroll through this blog for the fun of it, as if I’m walking down Memory Lane to revisit writings about Memory...
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My dream vacation is pretty geeky and dull
Let’s start with books My current dream vacation doesn’t involve traveling to popular or exotic tourist sites. In fact, it may sound downright geeky and dull to a lot of folks: A few weeks with a box...
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Hooked on karaoke
During the last three months, I have become hooked on karaoke. It’s not that I am new to karaoke. In fact, I’ve done it lots of times, mostly by joining with friends to rent out small private studios...
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Pandemic Chronicles #15: Let’s get through this bleak midwinter
Recent snowfall viewed thru my kitchen window, Jamaica Plain, Boston Here in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic continues at a brutal pace, as we await larger distributions of vaccines that will help...
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Pandemic Chronicles #26: Old postcards as time travel experiences
The pandemic has prompted me to revive a boyhood hobby of stamp collecting, as I’ve shared in my new blog on lifelong learning and adult education (here and here). It has been an enjoyable and...
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