“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.”
-George Hill
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”
-James Yorke
I love jotting down lines from this and that, and holding on to lines I enjoy. Inevitably, shifts happen and I find myself reminded of a sentence or paragraph I jotted down a long [...]
I had a very weird dream last night, as per my usual. It involved respected doctors giving me lousy and nonsensical advice, me telling them all “no, you’re not listening to me” and leaving their offices, as they’d each given solutions as absurd as ordering a colonoscopy to diagnose why I sneezed more than three [...]
Arthur Miller said, “The word now is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.” And, once in a while, there is an example, for better or worse, right upon us.
Remember when I wrote last week, asking everyone to mail a card to a man in Ohio with lung cancer, at the request [...]
A few years ago, my friend Rita was diagnosed with leukemia. She was in the middle of treatment over the winter holidays and kind of bummed out about that, and one day, while I caught the end of Miracle of 34th Street on television, I started thinking about the giant sack of letters that [...]
So, Leah , who blogs Accidentally Jewish and who is helping Pilcrow Lit Fest lately more than I can fully make any of you understand, is working with OSRUI, a midwestern URJ camp, to help them publicize an upcoming event on the night of May 2, and I couldn’t resist helping her hock a bit. [...]
Are manners dying out?
There is a difference between being straightforward in stating one’s goal or intention and being mean. There is a difference between discussing and arguing. There is a difference between being kind and being a doormat. If one is sure of what they believe, they can discuss, even disagree, without tantrum.
Alright, who mailed it? For the record, if you’re going to mail something to me, sign your name or it’s too easily classified as creepy. I thought maybe I recognized the writing, but the sentiment wouldn’t come from that sender.
Good luck, I’m moving tomorrow. So, do whatever you want with that address.
UPDATE: Shortly after I [...]
I’m working from the coffee shop today, and all day, the owner has been playing The Smiths. I took a little break to run a couple of errands and stopped by the new apartment and my landlord is not only a super nice guy, but he’s from Massachusetts. So, we chatted a bit about my [...]
February 29, 2008 – 9:27 pm
The Fixx Reading Series went wonderfully last night. The crowd was lovely, the readings were great and although Juan Manuel Sanchez and Garin Cycholl couldn’t make it due to baby things and flu things, respectively, but Adam Deutsch, Brian Kornell and Micah Reicket did a fabulous job and a fun time was had by all. [...]
February 27, 2008 – 12:08 am
During a time off from running this winter, I did little more than the StairMaster in my living room. I ran tonight and I am psyched to have done it! I’m also training a new runner to run a 5k as a team in May, and that’s beyond exciting. I have a lot of info [...]
