Once I was sitting in the waiting room of an office when I looked up at the wall and saw thumbnail pictures of a certain president of the United States side by side with thumbnails of a certain favorite zoo animal. Wow, low blow, thought I. “Dangerous, simplistic.” “Frat boy.” “Neo-Fascist.” “Inept.” “Embarrassment.” These are the words we heard him called. What the hey?, thought [...]
We need to keep this between you and me, OK? […]
You might be one of those people who resents the rich.But I think they fill a need in our society. They build castles to live in, and I get to walk by and admire them. I would certainly enjoy the country lane Nelson DeMille portrays in his novel, Gold Coast. […]
Today, let’s talk about the vacation you never take. Oh, you dream of this place — the beautiful blue water […]
Maybe you’re one of those people who gets a hangnail and it’s just a hangnail, nothing complicated. […]
It’s not a boat you want to get on. […]
I probably cook for psychological reasons. […]
I got a little app-happy this week. I heard about something called Breakfree, which monitors your smartphone usage. […]
This week, it’s been all about two new parents getting used to a cute new baby. […]
It’s too bad they were fighting a war in Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, because all the hills and valleys Helprin wrote about make me want to call a travel agent, […]
