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Hi Totoro, Now is the time to get back to some of the things you had to set aside over the course of the years (and the ones you never got around to or hadn't even thought of yet). ;) The problem is often how to winnow the list down to a reasonable number (or only one if that is all time and...

I was looking through some old estate books and came across "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"--a little book I had completely forgotten, but which made a very big impression on me and a lot of other people in the early 70s. Reincarnation is only mentioned in passing, as it is really a book about...

One of the most frightening things about this is that it sounds like Portland and other cities/areas that will be the most severely impacted are not really prepared, both in terms of the structure of buildings and the locations/evacuation routes for populations, for either earth quakes or...

Hi Cryscat, Thanks for the tips, these both sound like great books. I'm going to try to read Mailer's book as soon as I get around to it, and Stein's book when I can. Cordially, S&S

Wow! Very scary indeed! 😳

Hmmm. I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read many years ago. So if anyone is familiar with the book, please speak up! It was a "slow burn" mystery where the reader doesn't realize that reincarnation is involved until fairly late in the book. It begins with a torturous death in...

For my part (as a starter) I have chosen "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling. I have read and re-read this book over the years. It is set in Colonial India, and takes place as a story set in an environment where a large majority of the people believe in reincarnation (either as Hindus or Buddhists), but...

INSTRUCTIONS: This is a thread for fiction involving reincarnation in some manner/degree that you would like to recommend to others. This does not mean that reincarnation is at the core, or even forms a major part of the story. It may merely form part of the background of the story in terms...

Hi Totoro, Great to hear from you, and great to hear that you didn't personally get major damage down there. :) We did OK in my area, not even a lot of electric failures. So, counting my blessings, and hoping that the hurricane season is over (though there are still some possibilities for more...

Hi Firefly, Why can't you join Facebook? Just curious. I joined Facebook years ago so that I could check up on what the kids and grandkids are doing, but I don't usually post anything but occasional loving words to family. Otherwise, it is not really of interest to me. However, I didn't...

Hi Ocean, Do you know the reason for this? Just curious. Cordially, S&S

Correction: After mentioning the famous (or infamous) hurricane party leading to deaths during Hurricane Camille, I decided to look it up and found that what I had recounted was very jumbled and mostly what would now be referred to as "urban myth". For one thing, more than one person survived...

Hi Cryscat, Good entries! Storm chasers are really gutsy folks. I have never heard of one of their planes going down (and I am sure they take the necessary precautions to make sure that doesn't happened), but I'd still have a hard time doing that job. Storm surge is one of the real killers...

PPS--In terms of my last PS--Sticking with our mammalian heritage, rather than the unlikely combination of a fish with a land-dwelling mammal, one might better think of a seal/human combination (a variant on the selkie legend rather than the mermaid legend). Along that line, I can also imagine...

Hi Cryscat, If she lives in the Northwest part of Florida she should do fine. Likewise, the Southeast corner should do fine (Miami is a safe place to be--for a change). However, the highways leading out of central Florida are already packed with people evacuating. Hopefully the worst impact...

Hi Cyrus, Very interesting! Red Dwarfs are apparently the most common star types. Unfortunately, because their host suns are fairly dim, their habitable zones are close in, resulting in tidally locked worlds. So, baking on one side and freezing on the other. In simulations, vast oceans can...

Just got the word that Milton went from tropical storm to Category 5 (the highest category) in approx 24 hours. Also just heard that maximum sustained winds are at 180 mph/290 kph, which is incredibly strong. (I don't even want to know how high it is gusting). So, an incredibly dangerous...

Florida is getting two major hurricanes in approx two weeks. Helene hit as a Category 3 and went through a fairly thinly populated part of the state, but caused massive damages further North. Milton will hit as a Category 4 and go through a very densely populated area of the state. I was to...

Hi Cyrus I am sure the military is aware of the problem and will avoid the issue. Actually I am more interested in what you think Iran would do to cut Saudi production in half. I am not expressing doubt that they could, just curious about the means they would use and how they would avoid...

Hi Cyrus, Definitely. However, I am not too worried about military operations by the U.S. against Iran. I don’t really foresee anything like that unless Iran directly interferes with our ships or shipping in the region again. How would it cut Saudi oil production in half without—once again...