Pearl River      Sometimes I find myself just wondering about this and that, take for example lightning, thunder, and smelling salts. In the middle of the night, lightning was brightening the room followed by loud, deep roars of thunder.  From childhood, I’ve counted 1001 between every roar to tell me how far away the lightning …

            Mexico City     I’m not saying that air pollution has not gotten better in many parts of the United States, because it has.  I can remember the brown air from the inversions in Denver that hurt your eyes for days in the 1970s.  I can also remember visiting New York City in the same decade, …