True Stories

Four a.m., awake in my bed, waiting for the familiar call over the bedside monitor. It would come soon, as it did every night.

Night sounds: a remembrance of things long past.

Franklin wrote this humorous response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels while United States ambassador to France around 1781. He was also a respected scientist at the time. It was never sent (so as not to raise a stink) but was included in a letter to a friend.

Gordy and Weena (11)
Gordy is unhappy at the CSIRO. He goes off by himself to the southwestern corner of Australia to think it over.

Ramblings of an old soldier from a forgotten war