Decisions, decisions

 "If you know the path broadly, you will see it in all things." - Miyamoto Musashi

Appointment with the Vampire

 "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie

Interlude and Chemotherapy #2

 "Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." - Steve Maraboli

Interlude and Induction Chemotherapy

 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank   Amazing thoughts and insight from a child of such a young age!

Leukemia :(

 "If you're lonely when you are alone - you are in bad company" - Jean-Paul Sartre

Happy Birthday, dear blog!

 Today this blog turns 20 years old!  May it another 20 years :)

I will return to blogging within a few more months, and at that time I will share the happenings and cause for the interregnum.  Meanwhile, as Mr. Spock would say, "Peace and prosperity" to readers everywhere.

Still here, part two!

 "Man is nothing but what he makes of himself." - Jean Paul Sartre

Dear readers - and anyone else who happens to find their way here:  Apologies for the lack of consistent posting.  I'm dealing with a health issue right now that is taking a lot of time and focus, and having to research how best to deal with it, given the US healthcare system.  

Between not feeling well beforehand, getting dumped into a medical administrative rat-maze, and the nature of the medical treatment, it's best to set aside blogging and sharing ideas for the moment.  Tackling a car repair and sharing that in a blog post is out of the question right now.

With that out there, hopefully you can check out some older posts!  The most-read ones are on the sidebar to the right.  I *should* be back to routine posting toward the end of summer, assuming things go well with treatment.  One must always acknowledge the reality that things don't always go to plan :)

Mark  

Still here!

 Happy belated 2026!

 I am still around, just "focusing on my health" - as disgraced politicians always say when they slink off!!!!!

Celestron Ultima C8

"We learn not in the school, but in life" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

October 2025 Update

 "Floods will rob of us of one thing, fire of another.  These are conditions of our existence which we cannot change.  What we can do is adopt a noble spirit, such a spirit that befits a good person, so that we may bear up bravely under all that fortune sends us and bring our wills into tune with nature's." - Seneca