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 […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 3, 2005. It is far too easy for executives of media to pigeonhole columns into commentary. Or analysis. It then needs to be consistent, which is why humor and certain other person viewpoint columns are out these days. You can’t have your toothpaste be peppermint one day and […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, May 2, 2005. The news has been full of a woman in Georgia who just before her wedding disappeared. The times being the times, allegedly the family presumed kidnapping or even that the fiance killed her. The police, according to the AP, considered this a criminal case. This young […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 1, 2005. Can there be a 60-second blogger or columnist or essayist, in the manner of Dan Hurley’s “60-Second Novelist”? Yes. Why else pose the question? I just reviewed Hurley’s Web site, including listening to a seven-minute NPR interview — serious for public radio (not as big as […]