Suprise Me

The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal is reputed to have written words to the effect that  “This letter would have been shorter if I’d had more time to write it.” Perhaps if he’d had a reliable watch, a relatively modern invention, what short time he had wouldn’t have gotten away from him. For years,… Read More

I was first introduced to dating dos and don'ts when I was eight years old and my two older sisters started dating. Read More

... it got to the point where her hands were raw, and the doctor told her to ease off. She didn't work in a sewer, he said. Read More

This time I'll let the clip tell the story...if you're old enough, you'll likely get a kick out of  it. Read More

Mainly what I remember about learning script was that there were letters I liked and letters I didn't like. Read More

The schtick was to make the parents guilty that their children were falling behind in school and things would get dire if they didn't get the encyclopedia. Read More

Note: No children were warped by their exposure to this junk. Read More

Anne She was a quiet girl, soft of face soft of movement, and her long brown hair often curtained her eyes so as to be soft of broadcasting feelings. Both of us were novitiates to the  buzzing tech-worshipping work world where we met. We hit it off, mostly  because at age 18,   we knew… Read More

I was not at all nervous; my fear of flying, like so many of them, developed later. Read More

You ever meet someone who brags about not reading? Like, it’s some kind of badge of honor? “Yeah I haven’t touched a book since I finished coloring in those dinosaur pictures at school. Turns out, crayons are all the education you really need!” Reading is not some punishment for getting bad grades, it’s a portal… Read More