With the arrival of spring and summer, that once clear and picture perfect pond is now turning a soupy shade of green. It makes viewing fish nearly impossible and takes a lot of fun out of owning a pond or water garden. It’s a common problem for a lot of pond owners. What your looking [...]
Normally your immune system’s lymphocytes (white blood cells) travel to all parts of the body scanning the outside of proteins for chemical signatures. If it finds an invading protein, then the white blood cell returns to a lymph node where it becomes a plasma cell and generates antibodies to destroy that specific protein. An allergy [...]
Years ago I worked in a camera shop with a man named Sam who was constantly bemoaning his bad luck. He often talked about Mr. Dawson, a man in his seventies who was really lucky. Dawson owned real estate all over the western suburbs of Chicago. One day when he mentioned Dawson, I commented, “Hey, [...]
Jack laughed out loud when the letter came. “I won a sales contest,” he told us later, “and I didn’t even know I was in it.” Jack, a freelance printing salesman, was one of our steadiest customers at the photo lab. He wasn’t really a photographer, but he sold full color brochures and picture postcards, [...]