Order of Operations A friend sent me this question: “What is 6 ÷ 2(1 + 2)?” If the order of operations is used correctly, the answer is not 1. This simple math problem illustrates the need for a universal, agreed-upon set of mathematical rules. Would you drive over a bridge, enter a building, or getContinue reading “Order of Operations”
Category Archives: Disturbing the Universe
How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Entertaining the Troupe
Most of the sorrows of man, I incline to think, are caused by…repining for another world. Alone among the animals, he is dowered with the capacity to invent imaginary worlds, and he is always making himself unhappy by trying to move into them…The world, I am convinced, could be materially improved, but even as itContinue reading “How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Entertaining the Troupe”
How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Retrieving the Lost
No teacher should strive to make others think as he thinks, but to lead them to the living Truth, to the Master himself, of whom alone they can learn anything, who will make them in themselves know what is true by the very seeing of it. George MacDonald ~ Unspoken Sermons, Third Series A HairContinue reading “How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Retrieving the Lost”
How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Busting Chops
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly; it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But we still know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till thenContinue reading “How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Busting Chops”
How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Humoring Life
I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen ~ Pride and Prejudice Face was called “The Face” by his closest friends Johnnie and the Worm. Small wonder! His face was remarkably beautiful.Continue reading “How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Humoring Life”
How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Turning the Titanic
Life escapes; and perhaps without life Nothing else is worthwhile Virginia Woolf ~ Modern Fiction The Clouds Gather In April 1972, the Patriarch and his wife (the Matriarch) made a missionary trip to Durango. I met them at the doctor’s house where they were guests of the doctor and his wife. The doctor’s sons wereContinue reading “How to Crochet During the Apocalypse: Turning the Titanic”
Objects in a Bag 