Worldview

I love the curvature of objects as they appear in the reflecting ball. It's like a magic mirror--you almost feel that you could step inside.

Love Potion

No no no no no...Valentine's buzzkill below! But it's amusing.


"....few people would fall in love if they had never heard of love. The adoption of a literary convention naturally fosters the use of latent feelings which can be most easily expressed in that way. Such feelings existed before (there are romantic love poems from ancient Egypt) but they were rare and were regarded as an accident, an illness, or a mistake."

(From Marriage; Love, Sex and Divorce: What Brings Us Together, What Drives Us Apart by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy)


True Love an accident, illness or mistake? I think not.

Well, maybe, under certain circumstances, it might make you feel a little bit dizzy.

Happy Valentine's Day to you and all of your sweeties!

Nobody Else Thinks This Is Funny

Every few months I help copyedit articles for a neurosurgery association. I like the gig because, among other things, if someone uses the expression “Come on, it’s not brain surgery,” I can say, well, actually it is.

The group has an educational event coming up, and one of the features is “Live Cadaveric Demonstrations.”

When I saw this, my first reaction was, oh, those whimsical neurosurgeons! But although I have referred to it a few times in emails, in a nudge nudge wink wink sort of way, there has been no reaction at all. It seemed nobody else on the team finds the juxtaposition of “live” with “corpse” even mildly amusing.

Now I realize that these sessions with the cadavers are demonstrating life-enhancing procedures, and that is serious and valuable. If I or my loved ones ever need one of those procedures, I will be glad to know that our neurosurgeon had had the opportunity to practice with a willing, previously donated volunteer body.

But come on, isn’t the title just the teensiest bit funny? Don’t you think so?

Or is it really just me?