The Death of Civility
posted about 1 month ago, updated about 2 hours later | 3 comments
This week, I was in everyone’s favorite eponymous coffee shop, when two youngish men, dressed handsomely in business suits, were having a conversation right next to me. The exchange went something like this:
“I really got f----d over in that deal....
“I really got f----d over in that deal....
Looking for The Dress
posted 3 months ago | 3 comments
Shopping for the Dress
The weatherman predicted rain, cold, and sleet, but my determined daughter informed me to bundle up and bring an umbrella; we were going wedding dress shopping no matter what.
Shopping for THE DRESS is totally new to me...
The weatherman predicted rain, cold, and sleet, but my determined daughter informed me to bundle up and bring an umbrella; we were going wedding dress shopping no matter what.
Shopping for THE DRESS is totally new to me...
Magical Thinking
posted 8 months ago | 0 comments
Recently, I have been engaging in “magical thinking.” That’s when you actually believe that a) if you buy ten quick pick lottos, one will actually win the jackpot; b) that you will be standing in the center of Times Square, and someone will recogn...
Deus ex machina
posted about 1 year ago, updated 20 minutes later | 0 comments
After thirty-five years of marriage, I am finally having an affair with a machine. No, not that kind of machine. Nor is it darling Data from "Star Trek," or tender Robin Williams as the "Bicentennial Man." For our thirty-fifth anniversary, I passe...
Cooking for My New World
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
For years and years, I've toyed with the idea of vegetarianism. In a life of quirky and occasionally dangerous diets the idea of limiting the intake of one type of ingredient did not bother me. But for years, I had two major impediments to my vege...
New Year's Resolutions
posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
I never make New Year’s Resolutions. It is too easy to break them the minute the chocolate you have foresworn is passed to you by a well-intentioned office mate. However, the following pledges, a pointed and archer way of making resolutions, will ...
Music, Music, Music
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
So, first, I don't like the new EONS format. I'm already on Facebook. I don't need to be on Facebook, twice.
Meanwhile, we did some quality PBS watching, yesterday. Two separate documentaries with music that I love. It was TV worth watching, and ...
Meanwhile, we did some quality PBS watching, yesterday. Two separate documentaries with music that I love. It was TV worth watching, and ...
Moving Right Along
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
I'm moving again. For someone who dreads change, I've had a lot of it my life, lately, and rather than adapting to it, I like it less and less. I've shed a lot of "stuff" in the past year. I thought it would be liberating. Instead, I'm clinging to...
The Sickest Guy in the Room -- Health Care
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I routinely try to stay away from serious issue posts because I have gotten throttled, in the past, by people who disagree with me and I am not confident in the face of criticism. So, I'll ask you to be gentle with me because yesterday was a bad, ...
I Suffer from Earworms -- do you?
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
There was an episode of "Seinfeld" in which George got a song stuck in his head (it was "Master of the House," from Les Miz). I can relate. I suffer from the phenomona called "earworms," something that has been described as a psychological itch in...
