In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.