Chicago Tribue article mentions opalcat.com on Feb. 5 2009!

…sometimes someone hits on something in there that even I’ve forgotten that I wrote. This was the case this week when I was contacted by Chicago Tribune writer Charles Leroux about an obscure article on my site…

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"String Theory" of Thought

Many years ago I got to thinking… how is it that we are capable of speaking? If you break it down logically, it shouldn’t work. When I start speaking a sentence, I don’t know what the words at the end will be. I haven’t planned the whole thing out word by word. And yet I’m able to construct it in such a way that the word choices at the beginning of the sentence work with...
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Vegetarianism: the why, the wherefore

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. “ – Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

Most people’s relationship with the cow, the pig, etc. is a predator/prey relationship. This page is my explanation for why mine isn’t. I am a vegetarian, and have been since...
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Computer Kids

I am the mother of a wonderful little boy who will be 4 years old in a couple of weeks. Raising a child these days is such a different process than it was in my parents’ time. The biggest difference is the presence of computers. For better or for worse, computers are here. They are there. They are nearly everywhere, from the library to the school to McDonald’s to the DMV.

As fairly hardcore...
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