NPR directed me to a cool website that I’ve now joined. It is www.catalogchoice.org, and it’s a totally free site that allows you to opt out of receiving catalogues in the mail. (Is it catalog or catalogue?) I can’t tell you the last time I ordered something from a catalog – if anything, I would…
Theoretical Conversations
Most evenings as I’m heading home from work, especially those when I’m late, I give Patrick a call to let him know I’m coming, so he can (a) shoo all his girlfriends out of the house and clear up the evidence before I get home, or (b) get dinner started. Neither happens particularly often, that…
Thrilling Disaster
The Monte Carlo in Vegas has caught fire. From the pictures, it looks as though the very room I stayed in when I was there a couple of years ago is THIS VERY MINUTE in flames. I find this deliciously thrilling, for some reason. (No one was hurt, so thrills are allowed.) There are pictures…
Quiet Nights
See my self-penned obituary on Wonder Women. I would soooo love it if I could say all this about myself in 70 years. But we’ll just have to see what the future holds. As for the present – it holds some long and quiet evenings. Some nights I enjoy the solitude. Some nights I…
Love Lives On
Today, my mother died. She was 99 years old. Last week, she went hiking along the California coastline, with the aid of hoverboots and my twenty-year-old grandson’s strong arm. The week before, she was in Amsterdam giving a talk to the Literary Fellows of the university there. Two days ago, she made my wife and…