What an excellent book in every way – powerful, well written, deeply researched, provocative and passionate. And what a sad thing that 20 years since it was published, so little has changed!

A couple boxes from an estate sale which passed through several hands ended up in my hands. One box contained printed formal invitations to weddings, luncheons and dances. I typed some of the names into Wikipedia, and discovered the Baltimore, Maryland business, political and social elite, in the period from 1890 to 1920.

A guide for the ordinary person perplexed by affirmative exclamations beginning with Y.

A poem; yeah, tell me my English is non-standard…

I posted pictures of mushrooms and fungi that sprung up after the hurricane.

The generic war story is non-biographical. The psychology of PTSD is more familiar.

The Bavarian diminutive suffix still floats around in our family’s language.

Recently, a lost child was found after five days of searching by thousands of volunteers. In addition, thousands of people prayed and feel now that their prayers were answered, and they will never be convinced otherwise, by anything. Events like this have a nearly irresistible impact, skeptics be forewarned!

My family seems to like my chicken salad, so I made this photo-essay to show how it’s done. Enjoy!

I’ve designed and coded another website developed for mobile phones.

I’ve designed and coded my first website developed for mobile phones.

A little self-examination is always a good thing.

The novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was an excellent read.

I’ve been attending the Lee-Davis High School home football games, and making videos for Facebook and Youtube.

This book is ethnic, racial and sexual stereotyping from beginning to end. If you like your comedy that way, go for it. I didn’t care for it.

I coded a large new website, NC Engineer, which was designed by Brian Hase, with overall project management by Richard Carden, for IIr Associates Inc.

I posted a set of three videos from round 4.

Flogr is a terrific display app for Flickr images.

I coded a new website, The Sandstonian Restaurant, a website designed and managed by IIr Associates.

A chess friend announced (in 2009) that his wife was expecting a boy. We teased him about his son being exposed to chess from birth, like some sports star fathers who put balls and bats in their son’s cribs. I wrote this poem about it, December 17, 2009.

Mig Greengard, writing in 2001 for the beloved but now-defunct chess website kasparov.com, requested Linares limericks from his readers. I contributed a set of 12, covering each competitor and his/her Linares results. I did not win a prize, but I was mentioned twice in Mig’s article.

What else can one do but move with time’s arrow? Poem from 2006.

Poem from 2002. Transform your world with grammar!
With practice, this poem could be presented as performance art; recited with reference-fixing finger-pointing and other appropriate gestures.

Dutch formula one driver Jos Verstappen was very fast, but wrecked too often. As a result, he was relegated to one of the slower cars, an Arrows, when this poem was written in 2001.

I’ve made hundreds of tiny animals with Fimo polymer modeling clay.

I caught a baby rat snake on our porch on Monday morning.

My fan art dedicated to Svetlana Boginskaya, from 1992.

I spent about three hours hiking around Pole Green Park yesterday, and took lots of pictures.

Seen killed on the roadside in eastern Hanover County, Virginia.

Here is an essay from 2006, written in HTML!

Some poems, rescued from obscurity to see the light of day.

A fun little bit of wordplay, for those so inclined.

Poem from 2010.

Poetry from 2007.

Poetry from 2007, dedicated to Stephen Hawking. If QED is independent of time’s direction, or time-symmetrical, then we should see black holes being undone, too. Read those Feynman diagrams going in either direction!

A notecard thought about the Renault Formula One drivers, Robert Kubica of Poland and his younger teammate, Vitaly Petrov.

A poem about our important but often overlooked inheritances.

I coded a new website, the Danville – Pittsylvania County Corridor Studies, a website designed and managed by IIr Associates.

James Schuyler is the new Virginia Chess Champion for 2011.

We lost electricity for 118 hours after hurricane Irene.

We expect heavy rain and high winds from Hurricane Irene.

We had an earthquake here yesterday, which I compare to the California quakes I have felt.

A wasp examines out Crape Myrtle blossoms.

I saved a Garter Snake who was foolishly sunning in the middle of the road.

I posted more sets of flowers to my Flickr account.

Pictures from our visit to Pole Green Produce, including Hanover Tomatoes!

This is a list of the Philosophy courses I taught at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1990-91.

I’ve never seen such a pattern of squares pecked or eaten into tree bark.

Mom and I saw the Picasso exhibit at the Virginia Museum for my birthday.

A few pics of this once common local snake, now rarely seen.

Interior views. See the altar, stained glass windows, and statues.

Police procedural and psychological mystery set in contemporary Ireland, with police investigator Cassie Maddox.

Novel of late 1940s South Africa, with apartheid in the near background of a doubled fathers-and-sons tragedy, and recovery.

Resistance is futile.

Bring me more Jane Austen!

I posted several sets of flower photos to Flickr.

Pictures from the Father’s Day Cookout at Bill and Joseph’s house.

After five-plus years of inactivity, I am updating and modernizing my web sites. I am redesigning the look-and-feel, and re-coding almost everything.

Reposting of my online eye test from 2002.

Reposting of my online reaction time test from 2002.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News on November 18, 2001.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News, November 1992.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News on January 28, 1992.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Reposted from 2002, a parody intended to show that web pages with a high percentage of human skin tones need not be pornographic.

I began this poem back in the ’70s; I still haven’t completed it.

A list of the web site design, scripting and coding links I use often.

Titles, links, and brief author’s comments for my poetry collections.

Links to the web sites I visit daily or almost daily.

Alphabetical index of content on gywh.com and related web sites.

Homepage welcome message.