Putting an Eye Under the Knife
[Video: an animation showing how cataract surgery is traditionally performed, using tiny surgical blades for any necessary incisions. (There are videos on YouTube of actual cataract surgeries being...
View ArticlePutting an Eye Under the Knife (Part 2)
[Image (from Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2008-05-14): kinda self-explanatory, no? Nevada, it seems, is the US’s third most seismically active area, after Alaska and California. Also probably...
View ArticleSlowly, Painfully Returning to “Normalcy”
Can’t say I’ve enjoyed messing with all this site look-and-feel stuff which had been stable for so long. But a bunch of stuff has been fixed, anyhow: Main menu no longer bulleted; items in menu...
View ArticleStilling Those Tiny and Ever-Twitchy Antennae…
[Image: “Storm Ahead (Badlands National Park),” by John E. Simpson. (Shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] This has been an interesting week for...
View Article“Inch by Inch, Slooowly I Turned…”
If you’ve been following along in the saga of “How RAMH Looks (2022 ed.),” you may notice that this page layout is almost back to normal… …except for some nits which apparently will continue to drive...
View ArticleSeeing (and Treasuring) the Progress in the Standing Still
[Slideshow: “An Ecstasy of Redwoods,” by John E. Simpson. (Swipe left/right to alternate between desaturated and full-color versions of the photograph.)] Turns out that our anonymous whiskey river...
View ArticleBig Things in Tiny Packages
[Image: “Elephant Topography,” by John E. Simpson — chosen almost automatically to head this post, as soon as I saw the Mary Oliver quotation below. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons...
View ArticleLooking for the El Dorado Glittering in Your Heart
[Image: “El Dorado (Twentynine Palms, California),” by John E. Simpson.] From whiskey river this week: There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the...
View ArticleIf It’s Living You Want, Above All Else You Have to Live
[Image: “Walking on Autumn,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: Before this is all over. Before...
View ArticleThe Neurotic Solo Cast of the Horror Film Starring Oneself
[Image: “Johnny Was,” by John E. Simpson. I had no idea what this sign might have referred to when I looked up and saw it hanging over a storefront in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California; I’d never heard of...
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