Friends and Flying Pigs
One of the things I love about my friend Kitty is her eye for detail. When we travel together, her photos are filled with details – a cat sunning in a rustic doorway, a child with a dripping cone –...
View ArticleThe JREF Forum Scholarship, and an Internet Family
The Forum Scholarship Auction and the Support of an Internet Family I have been in charge of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF, randi.org) Forum Scholarship Auction for The Amazing Meeting...
View ArticleMore Flying Pigs
How great is my friend Kitty? She’s THIS great: I found a padded envelope stuffed into my mail box this morning. I had not ordered anything recently (except these totally awesome shoes from Fluevog),...
View ArticleLetters, the best kind of delayed gratification
It's lonely these days.... These days it has to be lonely to be a letter box. Oh, I’m sure the average letterbox, mailbox or post office box is still filled with sales brochures, credit card offer,...
View ArticleAn Amaz!ng Breakfast
I’ve been working14-hour days, if you don’t include the driving time, while commissioning a new processing plant in West Texas, for the past few weeks. Kitty is still on her European trip (I should...
View ArticleOutdoor Cafes, and Always Being the Photographer
Seems like I have always been the family photographer. My first SLR camera was a Vivitar I bought at Montgomery Wards about 1979. It was completely manual, and my ex was never interested in learning...
View ArticleFairy Tales, Fairly Told
Tales for young children, and is that James Randi under that wizard hat? I have been working on a fundraising project for the past year. The result is the book Fairy Tales, Fairly Told. It is the...
View ArticleBuy at TAM10, and the JREF gets the money!
Available at TAM10, my new skeptic children’s book “Fairy Tales, Fairly Told”. All proceeds from books sold at TAM go to the JREF for skeptic education for children! So consider picking up a copy while...
View ArticleWhere I First Met These Crazy People
Several years ago, my attention was diverted to a book called Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. I read it in a weekend, and realized at that point there was an actual name for people...
View ArticleFriday Fun Flicks! See, Hear, Speak No Evil with James Randi
Kitty, myself, and Susan with the Amaz!ing Ones
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