The Uncarved Block

This is my 100th posting on The Uncarved Block. Woo hoo! I wrote my first post on June 27, 2008. At about that time I saw an arti...

My cousin Hank told me the other day about an automobile feature that I never knew existed. In your own car, you know which side the ga...

Here is a series of photos taken as my  Stanhopea orchid opening over the course of several days. I'm not sure if it is  Stanhopea ocu...

Kero in her "room" at the veterinary hospital with her  IV tube and cone removed during one of my visits (she's hiding her...

For my entire adult life I have believed the theory of evolution. Darwin, natural selection, random mutations, the whole shebang. Unti...

Rodney King's impassioned speech "Can we all get along?" On March 3, 1991, several police officers in Los Angeles kic...

[I WANT, part 3]  --  [I WANT, part 2]  --  [I WANT, part 1] I WISH what happened to "i want?" "I WISH" IS EASIE...

One of my most popular blog posts, and certainly the most consistently popular, was about the process of repairing an antique soda sip...

[I WANT, part 2]  --  [I WANT, part 1] I DON'T DESERVE TO WANT don't be ridiculous, everyone deserves to want I HAVE SO MUCH...

For as long as I have known him, my friend William Rubel  has been studying bread. As a member of the Culinary Historians of Northern C...