Dear Friend and Reader: YOU HAVE heard me say a lot of times that TV sucks, and now its writers are on strike. Hearing that, I immediately forgot my silly old grudge and wrote to Jeff Apter, my union president in Paris, and asked him whether I had to walk off the job in support … Read more
By Eric Francis and Kirsti Melto | Lunations EQUINOXES and solstices begin the seasons and take us to a new phase of our lives. They are the times when the Sun turns a corner and makes a 90-degree angle to either the equator or one of the tropics (Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn). In the … Read more
“If you smile at me I will understand, that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.” — from the song “Wooden Ships,” performed at Woodstock Dear Friend and Reader: THIS WEEK is the 38th anniversary of Woodstock festival that occurred the summer of 1969. At the peak of the Vietnam War, nearly … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Luna slipped into her home sign Cancer overnight and conjoined Mercury, who is now sitting like a beacon in aspect to the Aries Point. By around this time tomorrow the Sun and Moon will meet for the first New Moon after the northern solstice. This lunation is nestled between two inner … Read more
ON THURSDAY, June 14, oil industry officials from around the world gathered at the GO EXPO (Gas and Oil Expo ’07) in Calgary, Alberta, and heard a presentation for an innovative, sustainable replacement for petroleum: a new technology called “Vivoleum.” The presenters represented themselves as executives from ExxonMobil and the National Petroleum Council (an industry organization) and … Read more