Top Posts


I have been blogging since late 2006 and I am grateful to the community of bloggers and visitors who have visited and left comments and generally made this whole blogging experience so enjoyable.   Invariably some posts were more popular than others as demonstrated by the number of comments and visits.

However, the main purpose of this blog was always for me to experiment with ways of expressing my more emotional and artistic side which for the most part had been subjugated by the more rationale and scientific nature of my academic training and career discipline.  So there were also some posts that I enjoyed creating.

And so, for newcomers and old timers, I present both the Readers’ Favorites and my own selection.  Please enjoy.

Readers’ Top 10

  1. Half Post, Half Mast, Full Life
  2. Born Buddhist
  3. Carolina Squirrel and the Money Pit
  4. Fishy Tale
  5. The New Zodiac
  6. Bears Just Want to Have Fun
  7. Squirrel’s Secret Spot 12: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
  8. Bummed Out
  9. Singapore Girl in Blue
  10. Not Another World Cup Soccer Post

The Squirrel’s Favorite Nuts

2011

  1. Heroes of Sukhbaatar Square
  2. The Other Side of the Tracks
  3. A Hammock With a View
  4. Say No to Intolerance
  5. Old Man of the Forest

2010

  1. Nocturnal Perambulations In Borneo
  2. Fishy Tale
  3. Ham on Air
  4. Smell the Rat-atouille
  5. First Day of the Rest of My Life

2009

  1. The Lady in the Café
  2. Orphaned
  3. Emergency Exits
  4. Stay Away From the Light
  5. London Revisited: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2008

  1. Advice From Doctor Love
  2. Field Report on Manglish
  3. Celebrating Natalie – A Squirrel’s Tribute
  4. Neither I Condemn You
  5. Real Life Award

2007

  1. Rediscovering Christina’s World
  2. Running Through Barley
  3. My Father
  4. Locked In
  5. Scratches the Gypsy

2006

  1. Cujo  or Why I Don’t like Cats
  2. Goodnight Mrs. Legatt
  3. I Get No Respect
  4. Love: The Early Symptoms
  5. Dissecting Spikey

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