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Archive for November, 2008

Thanks Again

Posted in Culture, Entertainment, In The News, Media, Politics, Sports, tagged , , , , , on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My mom used to tell me there were glass half full kinds of people and glass half empty kinds of people but sometimes it seems out of our control. You get the good news from your doctor, followed by the no-so-good news from your employer. You connect up with one friend and inadvertently start a [...]

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Reading List

Posted in Culture, Entertainment, In The News, Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes I think I’m prescient (actually, I think I come up with ideas at the same time or slightly ahead of other people who are far more established, possessed of name recognition, book deals, sharp agents and better meta-tags that draw more people to their web sites. Oh well). My latest ah-ha moment took place [...]

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Cut on the Bias

Posted in Culture, In The News, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ever notice how great you feel when something stops hurting? It’s a fantastic experience, that is, until you start to notice other aches and pains that had been pushed away while you were dealing with this particular hurt. Now maybe those of you for whom middle age is a long ways away can’t relate but [...]

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Post-Presidential Parsing

Posted in Entertainment, In The News, Media, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The day after the evening of the DAY, I woke up feeling a little surreal. I knew something momentous had happened that had captured everyone’s attentive, something neither horrific, like 9/11, terrible, like the financial meltdown (though that comtinues) not strange and superficial, like Susan Lucci’s weird goodbye speech on “Dancing with the Stars”. Apparently, we’d elected a young, thin, African-American person with a young, attractive family to be President of the United States…

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Perspective

Posted in Culture, Entertainment, In The News, Media, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My father, who was a fan of recitation, frequently used the phrase from an ancient Persian proverb, “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet” to remind us about gratitude and, I think to keep us aware of perspective. Perspective – the ability to step back, take [...]

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