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Catalog Choice
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…