Category: progress

Etch the right sketch

June 4, 2012 | 6 comments

Have you ever played with an Etch-A-Sketch®?  I did when I was a kid. Image from How Stuff Works It was very liberating for bumbling, yet aspiring artists, because whenever a mistake was made, one could shake the apparatus, erase the

Is the universe friendly?

May 18, 2012 | 1 comment

Often attributed to Albert Einstein I think the most important question facing humanity is, “Is the universe a friendly place?” This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves. For if we decide that the

Finding those God moments

March 23, 2012 | 11 comments

As I type this blog, we’re flying back to the USA from Australia over thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean and unending expanses of white and gray clouds elbowing for space as far as the eye can see. I