Donna Healy, one of my favorites, writes about snowflakes here. She does mention that old saw about no two snowflakes being the same, but as my wife points out, How can they know? Some good pictures of snowflakes too from Kenneth Libbrecht, a physicist from Cal Tech,  who specializes in snowflakes. Who knew that was possible? That is one of them to the right. I didn’t know they could be so large and so beautiful.

Jim Gainan shows he has more to say about life and living than just making our gardens more attractive here. What an asset to our community.

Ed Kemmick, in his usual wry clever way, has a long article on obituaries worth reading here. When you turn to the obituary page—you all do, don’t you?—you find at least a couple of interesting lives well chronicled. And moreover, the Kemmick article mentions an obit written by Sue Hart, professor of English at MSUB: I wonder, how exactly do we get Sue to write our obit? Hmm? As the time gets nearer, I wouldn’t mind taking a course in how to write a decent obituary. Any others?

The Op-Ed page has George Will on it, almost always worth reading. And finally, the letters to the editor section, not usually one of the Gazette’s high points, has a couple of interesting letters. What the heck: buy the paper.

The AP story doesn’t carry a photo of the suspect but the original Gazette story does. If you want to know what Goldilocks looks like, post Mother Goose, click here.