BP45 Twelve-year-old Katy walks through the store and glances around with apprehension at the displays on the counters and shelves. Thousands of expensive goblets, flute glasses, platters, bowls, and exquisite…
BP44 Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why…
BP 43 I still remember the day. For some reason, the memory is burned on the frontal lobes of my brain. I was standing in my closet-sized master bath in…
BP42 Advice to the groom: What is the best way to remember your future wife’s birthday? Forget it once. Advice to the bride: Your fiance is incomplete until he is…
BP41 You may have something living inside you at this very moment that is worse than stage four cancer. Much worse. Let’s call it the biggest problem in the universe…
BP40 Edee (pronounced eedee) insists she doesn’t want to be around people . . . If you’ve read many posts in this blog, you have repeatedly encountered the Designer Therapy…
BP39 Dry docking is the event that occurs every five years or so in the life of a ship. The vessel is steered into a flooded compartment and then a…
BP38 Have you ever looked in a mirror? Why do we look in mirrors anyway? Some people might say to see how good they look. Others might say to see…
BP 37 The First Day I’m in the psych ward at the local hospital. Yes, the looney bin. It’s my third time so now I qualify as a frequent flier.…
BP36 In 1934, Admiral Richard E. Byrd almost died alone—alone being the operative word. The intrepid explorer led an expedition to Antarctica, the coldest continent on the planet, to establish…