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Too much of anything is generally not welcome. It is certainly true when it comes to the subject of explanation. We want answers to many of life's mysteries, and sometimes to very ordinary things that are momentarily inexplicable, but we truly wish those who run on ad nauseam offering their precious insights would just be quiet. We even have names for those 'experts' who cannot take a hint and are intent on visiting their superior knowledge upon us. One such type is the m

No one has ever accused me of being too patient--and my guess is that might apply to many others as well. I can't wait for the new grass shoots to appear every fall when I put down seed, am delirious with joy when the leaves stop falling and I can put the yard to bed for the Winter. My impatience does not extend exclusively to the garden but ranges across the landscape of my days with its own peculiar urgency. The novel I am reading urges me onward though I do not wish to s

As important as time is to us you might think we had a better understanding of it. I'm not just speaking about time as a measure, an interval with constants that demarcate seconds, minutes, days and so on, but also relativistic time. When we are waiting on something or someone time seems to drag on, while it is over far too soon when we wish it would linger forever. It is more than a matter of perception, it turns out. Scientists interested in understanding how age change

What's your first memory? Was it at age one, earlier or later? There was a time, I dimly recall, when I could remember as far back as age three--but nearing the other end of my life I no longer know if those memories are real or inventions of my imagination. Perhaps it doesn't matter. In truth what we believe to have been is all that matters; it is what shapes our narrative and for better or worse our personal mythology--or what some call their life history. The only reas