So your college student is home for the holidays. How’s that going for you? I’ll bet that you couldn’t wait to see him/her. Me too. Funny, I’d forgotten how they stay out all night and sleep all day, which of course means that I’m up most of the night too. I’m somehow “back on the hook”; constantly asking: where are you going? what time will you be home? did you eat your vegetables? I’m exhausted! Read More…
Happy 2010! 2010–it has a nice ring to it don’t you think? If you’ve been trying to decide on the proper way to announce our current year–twenty ten or two thousand ten–the San Francisco Chronicle solved your problem on its front page today. Tom Torriglia from The National Association of Good Grammar says it’s “twenty ten”. Evidently we’ve been incorrectly pronouncing our years for the last decade. “The ’20′ should have been pronounced ‘twenty’ all Read More…
The Tiger Tornado continues. I wrote last week that it looked like Tiger was more of a Cheeta(r). Yes, I procrastinated and didn’t post what I had written. Over the weekend I read in Maureen Dowd’s New York Time’s column that the New York Post had already called Tiger a Cheeta(r). Good thing, because in light of the number of women that have admitted to having relations with Mr. Woods, I’ve down-graded him to a Read More…
Sarah Palin released her book, Going Rogue, this week to hoards of fans salivating for some “Sarah Speak”. Ms. Palin’s popularity it seems, has not waned since the 2008 presidential election. Why is Sarah so popular? Simply because she appeals to the “you can grow up and be president someday” in all of us. We were told as children, or told our children, that anything was possible with hard work–but not until the hockey mom Read More…
I left San Francisco late morning Thursday and 24 hours later, on Friday night local time, arrived in Delhi. About an hour before landing, I struck up a conversation with a pilot deadheading to India. He told me that it was tricky landing in Delhi on Friday because Delhi’s “fog” problem was complicated by smoke from the crematorium. He informed me they cremated their dead on Thursdays and the crematorium was near the airport. This Read More…
As research for my musing, I’m a regular watcher of news programs: NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. A few Sundays ago I caught David Axelrod, Senior White House Advisor, telling George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week, that Fox News is not really a news organization because they have a “perspective”. Mr. Axelrod said that the White House doesn’t recognize Fox as a legitimate news organization, and he didn’t think that reputable organizations Read More…
If you’re looking for a decadent read…The Post Birthday World, by Lionel Shriver, may not be a twinkie as much as an oatmeal cookie (with lots and lots of chocolate chips and walnuts)– it’s sinful, but not completely void of “nutritional” value. The first chapter introduces an expat couple living in London. He’s a Columbia educated PhD working for a think tank and she illustrates children’s books. Their evenings are like their lives: routine. They Read More…
A couple of Tuesdays ago I wrote on palliative care—the palliative care that people need at the end of their lives to help them die with dignity. This week–another kind of palliative care. Palliative is defined as: relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause. I’ve always thought of palliative like a band-aide of sorts; it covers what we don’t want to see, while we wait for it to go away. Read More…
Dear Mr. Krugman: I saw you on the Bill Maher show last week with director, John Waters and scandal-plagued politician, Eliot Spitzer. I don’t remember what you were talking about because I was so distracted by you dropping the F-bomb! Bill Maher uses this word so often that it’s not even effective—it disappears into the background like his pale skin and colorless hair. Jon Waters is a very cool movie director and everyone knows that Read More…
I have been attempting to write about health-care for weeks. As the debate has raged, I have made an effort to read, listen, study, and question the myriad intricacies of this polarizing subject. I was overwhelmed! Therefore, for the next few Tuesdays this blog will explore health-care bit-by-bit. My approach is to deliver to you—simply and succinctly—ideas on how, I believe, health-care can be improved. I welcome your feedback. Today: Palliative Care If you were Read More…
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