Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

We re-did our kitchen about 5 years ago (time flies). When we did that,I looked around and said, “Now that we have a nice kitchen, it would be nice if we used it to make good food.” So I started actually cooking – looking at recipes and making good food. Part of this was done…

Hello and welcome to another special edition of the PB podcast. Today we travel back to the year 1980. The podcast will feature songs from that year. 1980 was not only 35 years ago, but was an important year for me. I was finishing my 2nd year in college and started my 3rd year in…

Hmm, I’m having problems with my shift bar – time for a new keyboard? I’ll see if I can clean this one out first. Speaking of cleaning, spring, for some reason, is the traditional period for cleaning. It’s the first chance for those of us who experience winter to move around outside (there’s still plenty…

The inevitability of growing old isn’t a constant thought – I still feel the same way I did when I was eleven years old – I’m not so sure that’s good, but just the way it is. I usually see it in others, though, and now I’m experiencing it with my dog. Fiona the Siberian…

Hello, and welcome to another special edition of the podcast – the occasional Jazzcast that I’m posting for you. There’s nothing fancy going on today – no 2015 releases, no 75th anniversaries, just some good jazz music that I’ve been listening to lately. We start today’s show with Herbie Hancock from his 1962 first solo…

Feels like -1 degree Farenheit? It must be spring. Does my dog want to take a short walk? The Siberian Husky demands her long weekend walk. The Red Sox start playing in Fenway on April 13 – will that be ready? We’ll see. It’s the end of March and time for New Englanders to complain…

March has brought in rains. I’d complain, but since I won’t have to shovel it later, I’m good. We know that April showers bring May flowers, but March rain? Other than decreasing the size of snow banks (and the return of sidewalks that were previously plowed, were forgotten after the big storms, but have been…

Today is the day we sprang forward (wait – in English we’re making all verbs regular verbs – I guess we springed forward – ugh, let’s stay irregular). Daylight Savings Time is back, which means that I get to drive to work in the dark again. In the winter I get up in the dark,…

Hello, and welcome to another edition of the PB Podcast. I am on vacation right now, enjoying warm weather and staying far away from the awful, snowy New England winter. Lesley Gore recently passed away, and there was an unusual amount of love given to a person I thought was a minor pop star, but…

Today we look at wants and needs, as in “I want to go on vacation” vs. “I need to go on vacation.” That will be answered later this week as I head to sunny Southern California, with promised 80 degree (Farenheit) days. So, do I need or want? I definitely want it, and psychologically (as…