I realized the other day that I’m nuts. This revelation hit me just after I pulled the fifth dead pen from the cup on my desk, scratched futilely at the page with it, and then returned it to the cup. Did I expect it to heal? Was the passing of this ballpoint so traumatic [...]

  Life is full of rhythms and patterns. The earth rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. Bad old ideas are turned into bad new TV shows every Fall. Presidential candidates lie about each other every four years. Even my own home has a rhythm, but it’s changed over time. Sixteen years ago Ã?? when [...]

  For years I resisted buying a cell phone. As near as I could tell, it was just a very long leash. If I carried one I could never be alone or out of reach. In a moment of weakness, I succumbed and, to my surprise … I found out I was right all along. [...]

  Halloween is over and that means that there are only about fifty more hinting days until Christmas. I personally began my hinting campaign in late July. There’s no sense in leaving these things to the last minute. The important thing about hinting is that it has to be subtle. For some perverse reason, family [...]