by Michael LaMorte | Jan 15, 2026 | Substack
On the opposite side of the equator, spring comes in August and September. And the monsoon rains in the mountains bring a flood of water down the Nile to Egypt. As we all learned in grade school, the desert stretches for hundreds of miles in every direction, but the...
by Michael LaMorte | Jan 5, 2026 | Substack
Photo by Wikimedia Commons user JoachimKohler-HB, CC-BY-SA 4.0Another New Year. Another January. For some, it’s a time for looking back at the events of the year past, both the good and the bad. For others, it’s a time for looking forward, to put last year...
