2019: Not Totally Garbage So Far

I had some trouble with the state of the world in 2018. As a result, I’ve been having trouble figuring out what to write for this blog. (I wrote about this problem in October.) Christie suggested “beginnings” as a topic for today’s blog post, and I noodled around a while on that. But when I […]

Redux: Naturalist Without a Notebook

Once again, I was thinking that this year would be my year to keep a journal. Or a calendar. I spent a lot of time looking at various new options online, thinking that perhaps some clean fresh pages in a new format would help. Then I remembered this post, which first appeared in 2014. One […]

Abstruse Goose: Convergent Subsequence

The title is a little joke about a math term, “convergent sequence.”  No way on earth can I understand convergent sequences and I doubt if anybody can explain it to me.   “Converging consequences” — now that makes a kind of horrible sense, like maybe an east coast snow storm.  Anyway.  I hope this will be […]