Category Archives: books
Appointment in Samarra
My least favorite months have always been July and August, as Joklahoma’s sweltering and oppressively muggy summers drive me off the trails and pathways, except for early morning walks on weekends. One of my escapes is to read literature. In … Continue reading
Darkness at Noon
Long ago, early in my years of teaching high school physics, I came across an old paperback book from 1961, The Watershed, with a cover that showed Johannes Kepler and an illustration of his first and second laws of planetary … Continue reading
Treks Not Travelled
“This is not your father’s Star Trek.” —2009 ad for a movie reboot My friends know that I am a big fan of Star Trek, the original series television show that was broadcast from 1966 to 1969. However, I didn’t … Continue reading
2024 Reads & Watches
This is my third annual book and video report after sharing my reads in 2022 and my reads and watches in 2023. I also still have old book recommendations preserved on seven blog pages, but those haven’t been updated in … Continue reading
The World at Our Fingertips
Polly Hotchkiss, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation representative #5592514, was 46 years old when she made the sale. It was March 9, 1968 when she convinced a 31-year-old mother in the Western Village neighborhood of Oklahoma City to invest $228.35 for … Continue reading
