Monthly Archives: September 2011

I hadn’t owned a TV in years. So on 9/11/01, I would have had to make a special effort to watch the news. Rather than go to a friend’s house in order to see, and not just hear about, what … Continue reading →

Barely aware of naked branches bent beneath an inch of snow just outside the office window, I was a weeping stone before the lighted altar of images of what I believed to be my geographical savior. I called up the … Continue reading →

Why do we call the normal so many of us work toward “The Rat Race” and “getting ahead”? Neither one sounds or is in practice an attractive goal (to me). If getting ahead means being out of debt and having … Continue reading →