The back bay's warming up--the quahogs are feeding again.

The sun's rays are no longer just glancing off the Earth around here--we're warming up. Algae grow, fusing carbon dioxide and water into sugars, bound by sunlight. A bed of clams lies just under Richardson Sound, a few of them tossed back by my hand last summer, eating the algae.

Eating is a religious act--we eat other creatures, other creatures feed on us. We pretend otherwise at our peril.

I teach biology--we use words…

American comic creator and editor (1937-1998). He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, lived in a number of small towns in Missouri and Kansas, and spent his teenage years in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which he considered his true home. He shared his name with one of the characters in Rex Stout's "Nero Wolfe mystery novels -- a coincidence that once caused the editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, not realizing that "Archie Goodwin" was his real name, to ask him to pick a different…

E2 Star Trek episode guide : Original Series : Season Two

Amok Time

Episode number: 30
Airdate: September 15, 1967
Stardate: 3372.7

Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Director: Joseph Pevney

Background

Amok Time is one of the most famous episodes of the original Star Trek series. In a nutshell, Spock begins to endure the…

Simon, what do you remember about
that time with the sled? That it was night
and very cold, that we'd both just turned twelve?
We climbed in train: you, the sled and I,
past empty lodges, chairlifts in the sky.                

Mountain stories are a sort of genre –
the Magic one, of course, and Kilmanjaro,
a dozen trades on Hillary, a few score poems – …