Originally published on Facebook on 24 November 2014, and very appropriate for the political silly season. One key question we appear to have forgotten is, “Such as?” It isn’t always that question; sometimes, the statement leading up to it will require a different ph…rasing for clarity. But it’s always an important question. For instance: the […]
Elena Gaillard reminds me that at one point about twenty years ago, we took my then-young niece Kate and nephew Zachary to an Off-Broadway performance of Blue Man Group, back before Blue Man Group became the thundering multi-city franchise it is today. I think Kate was about five. And the circumstance enabled what may be […]
So among my many war stories of retail hell is the hellish electronics superstore I left after a year, feeling blessed to escape; I did not know that the worst days of my working life were still ahead, a thousand miles to the south. As it happened, a week after leaving the store I had […]