RovinCrone

One of the best things about retirement is being able to sleep late at least some of the time. For many years when I was in school or wor...

Enjoying Yosemite's Bridalview Falls A couple of months ago I had really intended to end this blog, and to begin another that would ...

  In a long-ago class in animal behavior, I learned that some animals—probably mice—have alternative alleles in their genome, variations ...

Susan Cain’s excellent book Quiet appears at first to be a shallow, pop-psych sort of book designed to comfort shy people. I read it ...

One of the few times when we found RV life daunting was a few years ago in Alberta. We had visited the stunning Dinosaur Provincial P...

Ordinarily we have to travel to find much excitement, because our homes in El Dorado County are in a scenic area that is generally bucoli...

THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA For about twenty years off and on, I have been part of an online discussion group, the Copyediting-L. Though th...

The poet A.E.Housman   is usually associated with World War I and Shropshire, but he also wrote a moving poem about Londoners, in which...

  “How would you like to spend the summer in Colorado?” When Bill Miller, my senior editor at Rand McNally, asked me that rhetorical ques...

Exercising at home is relatively easy, because it becomes part of a routine life. You can easily plan to walk to work, join a health clu...