My substitute last week posted an item on why she was “over” astrology, and she got this thoughtful response from “Willsea.” “Astrology, taken from the broad view, can create metaphors that lead us back to the self. It’s not about “accuracy” but the clues that we get about who we are. Just like the song…

“You know, according to Tibetan Black Hat Feng Shui, when a light fixture in the center of the house is broken, it can affect the residents’ health,” I said to our electrician while he installed a mission chandelier at home yesterday. “You think so?” he asked, smiling. “I don’t know that it’s so.” “Well, I…

I forced myself to watch (for you) the online trailer to the upcoming film about United’s Flight 93, the flight where passengers bravely disrupted the hijacker’s 9/11 plot to destroy the White House. It’s being billed as an “unflinching drama” made by “acclaimed filmmaker” Paul Greengrass (who directed “Bloody Sunday,” and “The Bourne Supremacy”), but…

Now, who am I to stir you up? Is it my job to give you more chattering thoughts? Well, I felt I needed to alert you to a new cell phone/brain tumor study. It’s not definitive. But it’s not good news. The study’s lead researcher said that people who spend 2,000-plus hours on their phone…

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