In a bottle marked Snow from a place called Ohara,I dipped my thoughts as soft as sakura.The ink ran pale as a whispered goodbye,Like foxprints fading in midwinter sky. With nib of gold, and fox engraved,I followed the trail where silence behaved.No shout, no glare, just a brush of a tail,And answers that speak in the hush […]
The Elegant Design of Nature: Where Science Meets Wonder
You know when you really look at nature — like the swirl of seeds in a sunflower, the shape of a seashell, or the pattern on a blue jay’s feathers — there’s more going on than just pretty pictures. There are patterns — cool math stuff like the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio — quietly guiding how things […]
The Apple Cart, Gerry, and the Magic of an iPhone 🍏💫
Sometimes, it’s the little things that sparkle the brightest — like the day I unboxed my very first iPhone, the magical 4s. Holding it in my hands felt like pure wizardry, a delicious mix of wonder and tech-love. Gerry, my late husband, was a patient audience to all my Apple adventures — even if he […]
From Santa to Spuds: My First Steps Online
At the clinic where I worked, we’d just had one terminal hooked up to the mysterious “Internet,” and nobody but me seemed overly interested. They put it in the far corner of the basement conference room — not exactly the glamour spot for a global communications revolution. The IT guys had set AltaVista as the homepage in […]
Back to the Whiskers — or, What This Storm Is All About
I started this blog years ago — then forgot about it, as one does with old sweaters, ex-boyfriends, and most login credentials. But the name stuck. Winterwhiskers. A place for the gentle storms, the thawing memories, the paw prints we leave behind without noticing. This isn’t a blog about cats (though a certain Bernard may […]
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