I’ve been watching the weather forecast all week, because I had plans to start exploring the hiking trails around Baltimore, and,  as of Thursday,  there was a varying chance of rain today.  When I got up this morning, the sky was attacked with clouds, but the forecast now predicted a 50% chance of rain starting…

Sukkot starts tonight,  and I made challah: Lulav and etrog. The four species. 

For unclear reasons, my site was down for 8 hours, and just came back up. I was online with tech support, and didn’t get any kind of satisfactory answer on why the site went down. Maybe I’ll have to look for a new host. Anyway, hello World!

I’ve been hitting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of many of the emails I receive. A lot. It’s thanks, in part, to Google’s new(ish) mail interface, Inbox, which sorts your incoming emails into “Promotional”, “Updates”, and “Purchases”.  It’s pretty cool.  And it’s highlighted for me how much junk I get.  It’s not spam, I…

I finally got the go-ahead to publicly post four pieces I had written while in Sierra Leone. For those of you who were interested (and frustrated), here are the links: https://morethanfoursides.com/after-the-red-zone/ https://morethanfoursides.com/rr-at-the-beach/ https://morethanfoursides.com/in-the-hot-zone/ https://morethanfoursides.com/practice-in-the-mock-etu/ I think they might be listed in reverse chronological order.  I think I probably need to read them again, myself. At…

I have tried to complete the Couch-2-5K (C25K) program more times that I care to count.  I always get to the 5 week mark, and then fall off.  It is often said that doing anything for 2 weeks forms a habit, well, 5 weeks didn’t do it for me numerous times.  And it isn’t because…

I can’t remember a time when old people weren’t a crucial presence in my life.  My earliest recollection is of flying across the Atlantic Ocean, and the flight hit a bumpy patch.  I would have been 2 1/2 years old, or so, and I vividly remember sitting in my mother’s lap, and then suddenly being…