Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, May 14, 2005: Note to self: There’s many ways to meditate, necessary when working an evening shift but want to enjoy the daytimes then need to re-fresh before going in: Meditation is first, because there it is. A 20-45 minute nap accomplishes about the same thing. Sleep experts say […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 12, 2005: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the whole body should confirm the nomination of cranky John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Comedians and humorists need easy material. Not to mention cartoonists. -30-
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 11, 2005: Morning after a local millage election. The Fayetteville Public Schools lost its request for a property tax increase of 43 mills. This is one Arkansas town that doesn’t hate tax increases. What was wrong with this one? The things this one would fund were thoroughly discussed […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 8, 2005: An ode to Mother’s Day. It’s the first one since Mom passed last November. I’ve started reading a new, and perhaps the only so far, full biography of Ogden Nash. Here is a lede that won’t work in my eventual newspaper review of it: It’s more […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 5, 2005. I attended one of the things I thought I’d never see, a National Day of Prayer service at noon today. I participated in one of the sets. As a member of the Bella Vista Recorder Consort, I played on tenor recorder a traditional “Grace” melody and […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 4, 2005. With help of another college friend who e-mailed me out of the blue, I’ve gotten the e-mail address of my freshman roommate. This was well over a month ago, and only now have I written a real letter to him. If Stanford hired a roommate-yenta, she […]