Sermonette?
It’s been some three decades since I last watched them do it, and I can’t quite replicate it. I wish I could multitask like my parents, who excelled at the feat before it had a name. There’s one round of activities of theirs that I envy. They could read mysteries and novels (Mom) or thrillers […]
Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you have to stop and think. Often thinking and writing looks like loafing. As Steinbeck wrote: “I write many thousands of words a day and some of them go on paper.” It can take quite a while. Visiting Washington’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the first time […]
They’re not miracles. You can call them that, and sometimes I do, but we’re all going to die someday, and the fact I didn’t croak Monday is just life. Maybe, it’s just death. Monday my pooch and I were not tapped by a live, falling electric wire. Last week I was on Interstate 540 heading […]
Principled newsrooms allow no gifts, but at Christmas the rule gets softened. One of the utilities has giant tins of caramel corn delivered, staffers dive in, and all know rate increase requests will be dissected in the news pages and mocked in commentary. That may be why the huge White House-shaped cake got to stay, […]
Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock Seeing the backstage drama Crazy Heart down at the Malco on its opening weekend here in Northwest Arkansas gave me lots to think about, being a good movie. It’d be fine to wait for a home viewing, but leisurely, panoramic views of New Mexico increase the worth of a cineplex […]
Copyright 2009 Ben S. Pollock My relationship with money sometimes irritates people. It would be none of their business of course, except when it comes up in conversation. I’m one who avoids specifics, but I try to be supportive of stuff that people say casually. Yet every once in a while I bite my tongue […]