Category Archives: Essays

My Famous Quantum English Lecture

My Famous Quantum English Lecture Someone once said that if you use bad grammar it’s kind of like having bad breath – you can say all sorts of intelligent things but no one is going to take you seriously. You can gargle and chew gum for your breath, but if you’re grammatically illiterate, until now, there was no… Read More »

When Something Beautiful Dies

When Something Beautiful Dies When we let something beautiful die the world is a less beautiful place. We tend to a prize rose bush and we water it every day and we prune it when it needs pruning. We feed it and we tend to it and we enjoy its perfect fragrant blooms. Every day we look at it… Read More »

Winter

Winter Winter is death incarnate. Its bleak sullen skies and early sunsets, stir up a morose soup that seeps deep into my soul sadly and lingers there.I can’t digest it.I can’t shake it. I can’t get rid of it. The darkness is everywhere. Even the melancholy morning sun mourns and yearns for spring. But in our eternal disregard… Read More »

A New Year’s Carol 2016

A New Year’s Carol 2016 I am one who adores Christmas, but despises “New Year’s” and all that comes with it. You may wish to call me the “Scrooge” of New Year’s and if that’s your mind, then so be it. New Year’s Eve? Bah! Humbug! It always seems to me that the day after Christmas, when the… Read More »

My Boring Life – New Year’s Eve

My Boring Life – New Year’s Eve If you like pointed hats, confetti, and cocktails, then I suggest you not read any further; for I am the Ebenezer Scrooge of New Year’s Eve. If there were such things as ghosts of New Year’s past, present and future, they certainly would have haunted me by now. I suppose it all… Read More »

They Can’t Take My Christmas

They Can’t Take My Christmas “On a quiet evening watching winter snowflakes fall – The candle in the window casting shadows on the wall. The village streets are empty on this snowy Christmas Eve; Oh to be a child again and see the wonder of it all.” The house is dark and quiet. I sit by the window… Read More »