The Silent Bark

June 23, 2009
Riley began barking at his chewbone."No bark!" I commanded.He barked again.I picked up the red bottle of Pet Corrector and showed it to him.He then showed me that he had...

"Skeeve"

June 23, 2009
The word has entered our lexicon in a big way, and probably thanks to The Sopranos.We Sicilian-Americans know it as a slang term our parents/grandparents used to...

Raison d’etre

June 23, 2009
Tikva’s monument was unveiled in San Francisco a few days ago. Tikva is the beautiful angel-daughter of my friend, G. The baby girl who was called to Heaven just two...

Delusions, dissonance and rationalization

June 23, 2009
Well, ok. I have to admit. I tuned in to Jon & Kate to see how they would present their divorce.It was a trainwreck.At least to me.The both of them spent all their...

A new definition of hell

June 22, 2009
Today’s service on jury duty has given me a new definition of hell: a personal injury lawsuit whose origin was a rear-ending accident. And I didn’t even sit on the...

Juror #26

June 22, 2009
I am sitting outside a civil courtroom, waiting to see if I will be called for a jury panel.It's given me time to ponder our system of jurisprudence.So I thought I'd run...

An anachronism, already

June 22, 2009
Just in from FLH:An era ends. Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak’s axing KodachromeSomething that is a bit more meaningful for those of us who call Kodak headquarters city,...

Gadgets I MUST have

June 22, 2009
The idea of a Kindle, or any E-book reader, has always put me off. I couldn't imagine that reading text on a screen would be as satisfying as holding the heft of a book,...

Aging Backwards

June 21, 2009
It is, as one TV weather guy said this morning, "ridiculously hot" and I am not kidding. Humid and hot.And, I returned from California with a raging sore throat that...

Is it desperation? or something else?

June 21, 2009
I was talking to a good friend the other night, a guy my age, whom I’ve known well for more than a baker’s dozen years. A confidante. Someone who always tells me...

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