Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do. Sometimes it’s not. Are you going on a date with that guy you kind of like? Not sure, it’s up in the air. Going to buy the new shoes that are a great deal but you don’t really need? Hard to say, up in the air. Where…
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I recently heard David Brooks being interviewed on the radio, he wrote a book and is busy making the promotional rounds. I was interested in the book generally but I was really interested in something he said that he found interesting and which had informed some of what he was writing about: fifty years ago…
Most of us seem to be at a place where we can take flying for granted and thus be annoyed by the whole experience. I have not forgotten that it is basically a miracle that we are all hurtling through space, well above the safety of the earth in a glorified tin can, and I…
I am a regular party thrower, or perhaps regularish. I host a party a few times a year, sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes for a reason and sometimes just because it is nice to host a party. You plan, you invite, you entertain and chat with friends, some of whom perhaps you don’t see all…
The couple sat across the aisle and I noticed that an eye mask-ear plug combo device was on the floor by her feet. The nice thing to do was to point out that one of them had dropped their eye mask, which I thought, they might want for the longish flight we were waiting to…
I love the Miss Manners column. It is admittedly part schadenfreude and part uppity judgement, but there is another part that is closer to self-improvement to make sure I’m not part of the broader social etiquette decline. Sure some of the directives are anachronistic and just don’t make sense for the 99% of us who…
Which is it? Which should it be? What is my obligation with respect to my behavior, choices and actions? Are there guidelines; should there be guidelines? Who decides? These are questions that ran through my mind as I lay in my hotel room bed wanting very much to be asleep and instead listening to my…
Faith Works 