December 21, 2006 – 5:00 am
It’s the winter solstice today, which means it only gets better, light-wise, from here. Hooray! Today’s post features two items that should bring cheer to the darkest day of the year: Saying Yes to Mess Embrace your piles! Messiness is a sign of activity, or so sayeth the NYTimes. (of course, January is Get Organized […]
December 19, 2006 – 5:00 am
Six days to go. And as an adult, this is when Christmas fatigue sets in – I start to lose sight of the joy of the holiday, and cross over into checking-things-off-a-list mode. But not yesterday. Yesterday, I spent the day listening to “O Holy Night” as performed by The City of New Orleans on […]
December 18, 2006 – 5:00 am
The end of the year …. time to think about tips for the milkman, the newspaper deliverer, the hairstylist …. you know the drill. As you work through your own list of donations and tips and gifts, the NYTimes makes a compelling argument for digging even deeper to eradicate poverty world wide. Read Peter Singer’s […]
December 11, 2006 – 5:00 am
Not much pithy to report this morning. This past weekend, we had our office bead-boarded and crown moulded. It always takes longer than you’d think, and thus sucks up more of the weekend than you’ve planned. Plus, I really needed to cacuum the room since all of the furniture was moved out of the way […]
December 5, 2006 – 5:00 am
Looking for a quick read? This week’s New Yorker has a comparison of the BBC and NBC versions of the Office (currently, my favorite show). You can read Tad Friend’s article at the New Yorker website. Or perhaps you’d like to read about neurotic hosts, and the lengths they go to so that guests don’t […]
