Everyone’s favorite asteroid, Vesta, is taking its apparent retrograde path, across the hind leg of Leo the lion, as we pass nearest to it.
Continue reading “Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets”
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Everyone’s favorite asteroid, Vesta, is taking its apparent retrograde path, across the hind leg of Leo the lion, as we pass nearest to it.
Continue reading “Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets”
There was a Muse for each kind of literature Continue reading “Back to the Earthrise Photo”
The limerick’s less than idyllic
And yet there are rules to this lyric.
It needs at all times
Three ridiculous rhymes
And a meter quite smoothly dactylic. Continue reading “Of Frogs and Stars”
Observing the planet called Saturn,
You see a remarkable pattern.
At first it appears
Like a head with two ears
But the pattern is flatter’n that ‘un. Continue reading “Astrolimerick of the day”
As the brightest of planets reappears, my book about Venus the planet and Venus the goddess also rises into view. Continue reading “Hail, Venus!”
As Jupiter continues to catch up with Saturn, the Moon comes by, this time passing Continue reading “Jupiter, Saturn, Moon. amd Time”
February 29 is Leap Day, that occurs only once in four years.
A feminist re-telling of the Iliad in which the heroine is the captive Briseis, Continue reading “Troy”
As I was taking my shower, some train of thought led me to an interpretation of the Greek myth of Prometheus. Continue reading “What was the fire Prometheus brought?”
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life,” and: “Your message is very important to us” – I was impressed Continue reading “Quiz erat demonstrandum”