The Uncarved Block

My sister Erica Sigal and I are proud to announce the creation of an endowment at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in memory of ...

Here in my part of the United States we experienced the switch to Daylight Savings Time last night. That is to say, we transitioned from “...

  My mother with a friend's dog, Harry Dear Mom, There are so many things that I want to tell you, but I can’t make it through tellin...

 Elise Cunin Sigal, my beloved mother 1933-2022 Elise C. Sigal, 89, of Oakland, CA and formerly of Newton, MA, passed away peacefully...

In the nearby city of Albany, California, there is an old landfill which is now generally known as the “Albany Bulb”, or just "The Bu...

In mid-2019 the Carolina Music Museum was renamed as the Sigal Music Museum in honor of my father, and in recognition of the gift of his c...

God was clearly such a geek. He got all the nerdy stuff working great – atoms, molecules, sub-atomic particles, photons, etc. He perfectl...

Introduction Recently there has been a swirl of news related to the sudden, meteoric rise in the price of GameStop stock (as well as t...

[Note: I have redone my recipe for finger lime marmalade and posted a new version. This post is still useful as I did not copy all of the...

Introduction For several months I have been watching the YouTube channel, Tasting History with Max Miller . It's great. His mix of hu...