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Dear Folks: February 21, 1999
Dear Folks,
My mom complained that I used two unfamilar words in my last letter, so I just looked back to see what they were. I guess “entropy” and “Enneagram” are the most likely candidates. Sorry about that. Let me explain.
Entropy is a word physicists use to refer to the tendency of the universe to fall into disorder. If you pour [...]
Dear Folks: January 23, 1999
January 23, 1999
Dear Folks,
Have you ever noticed that entropy travels in waves? Things don’t fall apart in a steady or random pattern; rather when one thing breaks down, somehow the disorder is catching, and all sorts of other things break down, and you find yourself doing nothing but running around trying to get things fixed.
Maybe this phenomenon is only noticed [...]
Dear Folks: December 19, 1998
Dear Folks, A light snow is falling. They’re impeaching the president. I’m in a foul mood.
They even usurped the Saturday live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera for their mean-spirited, self-righteous, vindictive nonsense. So I shut off the Congress and put on my CD of today’s broadcast opera, La Traviata. It’s a historic recording with Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill. [...]
Dear Folks: November 18, 1998
Hi Dear Folks! I’m sitting at Logan airport, waiting to board Swissair for Zurich and my friend Joan’s house and a Balaton steering committee meeting. The House impeachment hearings are playing on TVs all over the airport — they’re still going at 5:30 pm, and I heard them kick off at 10 this morning as I drove into Dartmouth. My gosh, [...]
Dear Folks: October 17, 1998
Dear Folks, Well, now there are FIVE! Five calves! Maple, Butternut, and Linden, who have graduated from bottles to buckets. And now two newborns, Alder and Birch, on bottles, of course. They came from the farm in Woodstock that gave us Maple. Birch has white markings on her legs. I’d swear she has some Holstein blood, but Stephen and Kerry assure [...]
