Wittering On

As are many in these merry days, I am re-considering my relationship with the incessant yammering of the body politic. How to stay in proper balance with the information needed as a responsible citizen, of course, and how to stay somewhat shielded from the needlessly...

A Million Dollars in Aisle 4!

Before I saw this sign, I had started an essay about business branding versus business personality, about how it seems that the first can be soul-less and opportunistic, and the second full of human presence and quirkiness. I also was thinking about how individuals...

Stop the Train! Was That A Rocket Ship?!

I always carry books on a train, in case my attention to the scenery outside the train flags. A book would offer the opportunity to step away into another world. But I never read, because the view rushing by never flags. The panorama rewards, and even requires,...

Incident of the Irish Music Box

This time of year, I can become a touch weary with the wearing o’ the green. The sweeping and wonderful Irish folkloric culture seems a bit, well, debased in March, with the fairy folk diminished to cartoonish leprechauns and powerful old tales reduced to green...

A Bed Event, and A Cat

I had an event the other night with our adjustable bed. I have re-written that sentence four times so far. I had an encounter. An incident. A surprise. A shocking surprise. A skirmish. Something that woke me the hell up. Something that brought me bolt upright except...
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