This Wonderful Life: Chance encounter was no bull
I think I was going to
the dining room in search
of a chair.
You know how it is - you
walk into a room to get
something and then totally
forget what you were looking
for because, looking into
your dining room window,
is an animal the size of a
sofa with an expression
that says, ``Hey! Can someone
come out to play?’’
June 4, 2009
This Wonderful Life: I heart the radio. A lot.
Of all the 20th-century
media out there (newspapers,
television, magazines),
radio is the one I
would miss the most if it
completely disappeared.
With the proliferation of
iPods and other MP3 players,
radio stations are
struggling to keep listeners.
Why take a chance on
the radio when you can
plug in all your favorite
music or listen to a podcast
or book?
May 28, 2009
This Wonderful Life: Burned out? Join the club
The other morning, amid
the general din of breakfast
requests and morning routine
meltdowns, I heard an
interesting statistic on the
radio: One third of working
mothers surveyed by CareerBuilder
reported that
they were burned out.
One third.
May 15, 2009
This wonderful life
Henry David Thoreau
wasn’t designing inspirational
jewelry when he
wrote the following words,
but he might well have
been for the number of
times I have seen the
phrase repeated on bracelets,
necklaces and a full
variety of T-shirts, coffee
cups, magnets and other
vessels for slogans
April 30, 2009
This Wonderful Life
Because I neglected to
rake the leaves from our
gardens last autumn, raking
became my first springtime
chore.
April 23, 2009
This Wonderful Life
Last week, National
Public Radio interviewed
several of those experts of
the variety who like to
think about the ways economic
trends effect the way
people live and vice versa.
April 16, 2009
This Wonderful Life
I cannot remember ever
being so eager for spring as
I am this year.
April 9, 2009
This Wonderful Life
Posey has entered what
I like to call her cruise director
phase. Last week,
while on a trip out of town,
we found a nice little Japanese
restaurant in the middle
of Sleepy Hollow. (Side
note: How far removed from
civilization could Ichabod
Crane have felt when he
could have seen Manhattan
while driving over the Tappan
Zee Bridge. Sheesh.)
As soon as we walked
into the restaurant, Posey
spotted another child, a little
girl who looked to be
about 2.
April 2, 2009
This Wonderful Life
I’ve been thinking a lot
about the Great Depression.
I know I am not alone. Sure, news media have
been making comparisons
since last year, but you
can’t listen to them.
