Monthly Archives: January 2015

Why I’m opposed to vaccines for infants

As you have probably heard, there has been an outbreak of the measles at Disneyland in California. Cue the anger of the vaccine proponents – everyone from Melinda Gates to Dan Diamond, a contributing writer at Forbes, who wants to … Continue reading

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Why I’m so glad “Boyhood” won the Golden Globe

HUGE upset at the Golden Globe Awards tonight, as the relatively small indie film “Boyhood”, written and directed by Richard Linklater and starring, among others, Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, won Best Motion Picture.   It beat out “Selma” – … Continue reading

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Catching the moment

For Christmas I got the National Geographic Masters of Photography Course.  So far I’ve watched sections on Adventure and People in their Environments.   The through line for all the lessons so far, irrespective of the overall subject matter, is … Continue reading

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