Narcissism. Voyeurism. Exhibitionism. Hypocrisy. I’m sure we can all agree these are not the greatest qualities. And yet, they appear to be more common aspects of the human condition than any of us would like to believe. We’re always appalled when people have their privacy violated. Like the creep who spied on Erin[…] Read On
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.” Usually attributed to Alexander Graham Bell, that quote was actually said by Fernando de Rojas, famed author of La Celestina around the time of the Spanish Renaissance, c. 1500 ish (I found it in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations). It represents one of[…] Read On
My dog is in the hospital. I took her to the vet yesterday because I thought she had a sticky weed stuck in her throat. Turns her red blood count is dangerously low – half of what it should be. What that’s got to do with her waking us up[…] Read On
I had all sorts of crappy jobs growing up. I was a foot messenger in mid-town Manhattan. I cleaned up blood and guts in a butcher shop. And after four and a half years of college and a BS degree in physics, I was a part time vault attendant at[…] Read On