I finally heard from Sky and Telescope today. As I suspected, my manuscript wound up in the editor's spam folder again. I don't know...

Dawn gave me a scare today. She got spooked by something in the park and pulled out of her collar. It all happened very fast. Luckily, she s...

Hey, I'm doing my part. My car hasn't left the driveway all week. With the exception of a short trip to the vet yesterday, Janet...

We took Dawn to the vet today. It wasn't the first time she's been to the vet. All the Dalmatian Rescue dogs get an extensive vet ch...

If we all die it will be because of a basic lack of common sense instead of the coronavirus. I really wonder about people. We are not runnin...

It was almost inevitable. Dallas, like many other large cities, is now under a lockdown. The new "Shelter in Place" rules go into ...

The baby owls have really grown since I saw them last. I initially mistook one of the babies for the mother this afternoon. A closer look qu...

Maybe I'm fooling myself, but I'd like to think that all my long walks are keeping me healthy. What's not to like. Walking burns...

The Crane Flies are back. I hate these things. They are like spiders with wings and every Spring thousands of them seem to gather by the bac...

It's going to be a very long Spring. They say that new cases of the coronavirus won't begin to peak for another 45 days. Even if inf...

I'm still getting used to the new normal. Lots of people were walking their dogs in the park today. There were more people without dogs ...

I'm glad I went to the gym yesterday. I got an e-mail this morning saying that they were closing until further notice. Stores are closin...

I'm glad my gym was still open this morning. There were a few additional signs about wiping down the machines after use, but just about ...

I took a final walk around the mountain early this morning before saying goodby to a place I'd grown to love. Birds were starting to sin...

It's definitely Friday the 13. We're currently under a tornado alert and we just learned that McDonald Observatory is being closed b...

Today was basically a free day with no star parties or tours, so I decided to drive down to Marfa and look around. I drove south to Alpine a...

Today was amazing. Nothing went according to plan, but I managed to come up with a new plan that was much better. My tour guide shift was ov...