My friend, Monika, sent me this fascinating video of a conductor attempting to mentally communicate to his orchestra which piece of music he wants them to play. Without having any foreknowledge of the selected piece, with no sheet music, and with the conductor’s hands tied behind his back, the orchestra ostensibly “picks up” the mental … Read more
I love waking up in North Carolina. My Outer Banks house sits on 12+ private acres surrounded by Nature Conservancy land, thus I have no need for curtains in my bedroom. I usually wake the moment the sun streams through the picture window and spend a few moments enjoying the view of the Maritime forest … Read more
I drove up to the Outer Banks NC on Monday in record time – just under 14 hours, including four stops for gas. As I neared my destination, the landscape changed to the swampy coastal plain that constitutes much of Tyrell and Dare Counties. I’d forgotten how pretty the Outer Banks is in the spring. … Read more
Occasionally I shop at the Publix Supermarket just around the corner. During my last trip I noticed a sign on the front of my shopping cart: “This shopping cart will automatically stop if taken beyond the yellow line at the end of the parking lot” I thought it was a joke – or at the … Read more
A live webcast of the dissection of the largest colossal squid ever caught is scheduled for April 30th at the Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Weighing nearly 1000 pounds and measuring the length of a school bus, the behemoth was caught in Antarctic waters in February of 2007 by a fishing vessel trolling for … Read more
