Author: Inna

Pearls, like jeans, never really go out of fashion. And these days, they are at fashion’s forefront, with the predictable result that everyone wants to wear these lovely

There is something about this card that tells you it’s hand-made and to me that says thought and quality. Plus a hand-made card is most welcome in this

The other day, I listened to a podcast about taxes.  (Please don’t shut down this post immediately; it was a thought exercise more than anything else.)  The idea

This feels like a weird—and not in a good way—election doesn’t it?  A lot of ink has been spilled on why that might be so I thought maybe

  The other day, I went to a company thing and the day started off with us watching a TED talk.  I enjoyed it—to be honest, there are

As you know from an earlier post, I am what you may call very pro-watch.  So it will come as no surprise to you, that I very heartened

In the 1950s, detergents which had been manufactured as a temporary cleaning solution to replace the World War II shortages, surpassed the real thing in popularity and so

In the middle of the Atlantic piece on ISIS, there is an interview with Graeme Wood who points out that one of the most effective recruiting tools ISIS

In one of her essays, one of my favorite historians, Barbara Tuchman, defined history as “emotion plus action recollected or, in the case of latter-day historians, reflected on

Could those things possibly be satellites?  That is what the SETI Institute hopes to find out.  It should have at least preliminary results sometime this week.  In the