'amusements' Category
Getting Away
I’m going to give the blog a bit of a rest while I drag my cold-wracked body off to Key West for a much needed R&R.
It has been a miserable Winter here in Washington, a succession of dull gray days with temperatures conistently below freezing, a monotony only matched by grim newspaper articles detailing how many [...]Trials of the Quotidian
I looked up the other day and realized I had let most of October go by without a posting. Most bloggers operating without an entourage of eager bloggophers soon find themselves having to devote more time to life than their blogs. I am no exception but rather than let my blog languish, causing my four [...]
Pass the Cup
I swore to myself I would keep politics out of this blog. But my journalistic instincts which includes a keen desire for a scoop forces me to report a phenomenon I recently noticed. Like many Americans I have a favorite coffee cup and mine is the George W. Bush inauguration cup, a fine ceramic vessel [...]
Blog ’til you drop
Headline in the New York Times a few days ago: WRITERS BLOG UNTIL THEY DROP. The story goes on to say that elderly bloggers are at special risk for burn-out. Some apparently are collapsing onto their keyboards. Am I concerned? Not really. I think the writer of this report is forgetting that the new 70 [...]