Civilization Crumbles
The New York Times Social Q’s column sometime in the last couple of months included the line – and I paraphrase – “every time we fail to acknowledge someone we […]
Category Archives: Philosophical
No, I Don’t Have a PhD
It happened again yesterday. An acquaintance introduced me to her other friend, and when we got through names, titles and work places, I remarked that we did similar kinds of […]
Steel Cables
Been thinking a lot about obligations lately. What you owe to colleagues, family, friends, society – why and how the calculations are made. Fortunately, when I get caught in a […]
Mixed Marriage
My husband and I have a mixed marriage when it comes to our attitudes about our books. I tend to only want to buy new books when I have already […]
Red Card
I’m not a terribly sports oriented person. I don’t like watching professional sports other than tennis, and always preferred pick up games to organized teams. I’m equal parts overly competitive […]
Un-Wealthy
There has been a lot of discussion lately about poverty in the US both because of the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s War on Poverty, and the proposed extension of federal […]
Time Out
Time off means different things to different people. For me, stretches of “free time”, also known as “Holidays”, usually mean “Project Management”. Winter break projects usually involve paint, furniture rearranging […]
Progress
Sometimes the future arrives when you aren’t even looking. The other night we attended the fall concert at my daughters high school and I got to see the future up […]
For what its worth
I was rummaging around in envelopes of old photos when I came across one of me ironing when I was a child. I am three or four years old, in […]
Name Game
I got into an interesting discussion with my daughter about the custom of women taking their husband’s name when they get married. She was for, I am against. My position […]
Context Matters
Context matters. Until it doesn’t. Watching and listening to the story unfold of how NFL player Richie Incognito bullied and used racial slurs against teammate Jonathan Martin, I noticed a […]
Sugar & Spice
I attended a lecture about negotiating today. Specifically about how women do or don’t negotiate and why. None of this was news to me but I always like to know […]
Snake Oil
July is turning into a brutally hard month for blog writing. Too many competing writing projects means ranting stays (mostly) in my head rather than in my blog. I overheard […]
Hoodie
I have been struggling to write about the George Zimmerman verdict while I got my thoughts together. Unfortunately, even though this post has been in draft since 7/15, my thoughts […]
Zen
I have found my perfect Zen exercise. Zumba. Zumba, if you haven’t tried it in the last five years that it has been the latest thing, is a kind of […]
