Sunflowers on a rainy day.
life / memorable people I have known / music

Sunflowers on a rainy day.

One of the first assignments you get in Journalism 101 is the obituary. I suppose everyone knows that obituaries for the famous and notable are held on file, ready to be published upon the news of the subject’s passing.

In the few years that I’ve been blogging, I’ve thought several times about writing this one. I knew the day would come and I knew I’d want to offer a genuine goodbye. I didn’t attend the official farewell. I knew my goodbye would have to be done my own way and that would probably mean it would be written.

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Square of pi
holidays / humor / music / random

Square of pi

I’m sure by now you’ve been reminded what a big day today is.

It was on this day in 1592 that a mathematician named Mrs. Smith baked her first double-crusted, lattice-topped dessert featuring apples from her Granny’s orchard and, upon noticing that the ratio of her pastry’s circumference to its diameter was approximately 3.14, she called it pi.

Later an e was added . . .
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