Month: September 2018

For September 26, 2018         “Mosquitoes troublesome” is one of the most frequently-repeated phrases in the journals of Lewis & Clark.  Things have not changed much since 1804:  mosquitoes still suck. And therein …

For September 19, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, When I was in graduate school at the University of Illinois I read “Arrowsmith”, Sinclair Lewis’s 1925 novel dwelling on the medical research enterprise.  I was smitten by …

For September 12, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, Plants are stuck in one place, pretty much.  Seeds & pollen & spores can move, and if you’re a roadside daylily or a chicory then corms …

For September 5, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, My Dad taught high school history, and our shelves at home included the Time Life series on Great Ages of Man.  My internal timeline was already primed …