Recently in the Baltimore airport I met a lovely woman and I let her rub me all over. Well not entirely all over, but back, arms, neck and head so a lot of body was covered. And it occurred to me that it was in fact a little odd that I was letting a perfect stranger…
Have you ever ridden a bus? Either a long-haul trip or just a local. Even a school bus experience will do if that is all you have had. When you get on the bus that’s it, you are on the bus until the next stop. Long or short that’s it – you are stuck until…
Another shooting. An horrific shooting. Lives lost, lives changed, new terror. Again. Since the shooter is dead we can’t ask, “so what exactly lead you to this point?” We can make assumptions, we can infer and guess but we can’t totally know and I’m not sure it even really matters. The people who are injured,…
I have always had cats and I would say I am neither a cat person nor a dog person. I like both for different reasons and I like having both. In particular I like the esthetic quality of cats around a house, they add something visually to the landscape of a room or garden that…
Flip-flops are a kind of shoe. People call them different things in different places. When I was growing up my mom would call them zorries (not sure about the spelling on the sound of the word or on the origin of the word). My mom had a lot of odd names for things so maybe…
Sometimes we get a call from a polling group wanting to know an opinion on this thing or that thing in politics. Sometimes you can guess who has paid for the poll based on the questions or what the issue is that might be turning up on the next ballot, I think it’s part of…
The baby child, that is to say the younger one who is not at all a baby anymore received his driver’s permit about a month ago. Unlike with his older sister who we taught to drive “the old fashioned way” by taking her out to parking lots and abandoned warehouse sites when she got her…
There is some deep and valuable study about human nature in here – I’m just not quite sure what it is yet. But it is the fundamental difference between those who eat their least favorite things off the dinner plate first so they can end with the good stuff and those who eat the good…
The end of the first month of the year is nigh which should mean that it will be easier to find a spot in yoga class and the ellipticals will free up on Saturday morning – I hate it when I get stuck on the one with the fixed arms. Bread might be restocked in Whole…
The rain has come to California. It stayed away for a long time and so we forgot what it was like to have water falling from the sky. It is wonderful of course, but it also creates some inconvenience. That’s true of the never-ending sunshine also: lovely days but no showers and dead plants. Every…
Faith Works 