Where would you like to go today?
What a delightful Sunday. Pasha Korniliev drove me to Harrison NJ. We have been living in Corning for 27 years now, went to New York City probably a hundred times, and still I did not know that there is PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) train, sort of like a subway, that takes you from NJ…
At least part of the original intent behind creating this blog site was to keep a travelogue—somewhat brief trip reports with selected photos, to help preserve the memories. Well, good intentions pave the road to you know where. Turns out I am too busy. Or too lazy. Or both. And yet memories fade too quickly…
I had a thought this morning that seemed profound, or at least worth writing down before I forget. The thought was simple: gaining knowledge means adding something, while gaining wisdom means subtracting something. This is easy to illustrate. When you learn something new, you read a book, listen to a lecture, or attend a talk,…
This is a brief linguistic essay following up on some thoughts and conversations I had while visiting my home city of St. Petersburg, Russia, two weeks ago. As usual, I had just one week and too many things to do. Therefore, I decided that I would meet only with family and a selected few of…
This is another topic of interest to me, closely related to the topic of freedom in general. Bound by the rules of society and by our personal limitations, are we at least free to make simple choices? Can we freely choose ice cream or creme brulee for dessert? Apparently, this is one of the central…