Navel-gazing if you’re a computer or know one. Boring but included for sense of completion.
Wednesday, My Beloved and I head to Philadelphia for the annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. It starts with a Thursday night reception, but I need to be at the hotel at 2 for the board meeting. I have created Brick subsets for two previous conferences, in Dallas and Boston, and a […]
Writer Salman Rushdie is coming to town, and I recalled I wrote a column about his troubles. It was a peach, in my fuzzy memory, so surely I had posted it online, right? Well, it is there, now. It was from 1989, and I had to type it in earlier today because I wrote it […]
I make good eggs. Of course, I ran a bed-and-breakfast for a year. Making muffins and, yes, eggs got me hired. But that’s not what I mean. I make good eggs. A year and a half ago, I put up a Brick that toward the end included my daydream that family and friends just humor […]
Not every book works well as an audio. If it’s adequate, it may not be a successful work-commute diversion. For most of eight years, I’ve had a long-enough drive (20 minutes one way) where audio books are more satisfying than, public radio. Spoken word holds the attention better than even the best tunes, work week […]
Speaking of technology, and these days who isn’t, how can any regular person deal with the biggest contradiction in retail (though not as big as between what they charge and what’s in my account). From not only the advertisements but consumer journalism, your living room is supposed to have flat-screen LCD plasma four-wheel-projection HD televisions […]
This must be the way to get a couple of New Year’s resolutions accomplished: Start and finish early. It works, it has to work this time. On Dec. 26, My Beloved and I returned to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. By mid-month, I dropped nine pounds and relaxed into the just-a-little-carb Phase 2. […]