Ocean

A friend boarded a plane on November 3rd and flew to Hawaii. Today she really rubbed it in with this message: Aloha Nina, Maybe you c...

big deal, a coupla palm trees and a boat... 

I read European blogs and papers when I think I cannot take another ounce of American political chatter. Today I eventually made my way to t...

A reader writes about the pressure she feels from conservative victors to “ move on ,” “ get over it ,” etc. I, too, have heard my share of ...

Once again Ann makes an Op-Ed appearance , this time in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. She writes about the quest for peace and unity foll...

You hear it all the time: Bush enters his second term with the largest popular vote ever recorded in presidential elections. Mandate! – says...

Where am I? What time is it? Well might I ask. I know one thing – I’m into the fourth day after the election and I have yet to sleep more th...

I needed that. 

It may surprise some to learn that today, on the last Outdoor- Market day, I ate my first L’Etoile croissant for the year (I had their pumpk...

The gray suit and the white shirt are back in style.  

Missing is the look of people hard at work. There is not a single rolled-up sleeve at the table, figuratively-speaking or otherwise. And not...

a gaggle of carrots, reaching for the warm rays of the sun 

peppers and cones with the yellow leaves of a lingering Fall 

A reader forwarded this story on the referendum that was on the ballot in Alabama. It appears that it failed (thus far, because they are dem...

My words to our neighbors across the Pacific: let’s not hope for the impossible and we will not be disappointed. I read in the IHT today ...

(Or: How I got through yesterday on virtually no sleep for two nights in a row) Was 2 minutes late for first class (never happened befor...

That one-of-a-kind Jeremy, over at JFW wonders why people are so psyched about moving to Canada now and not choosing to relocate to, say, P...

The European press reacts to the election results (thanks A., via yahoo.com): The Independent bore the front-page headline "Four mor...

Thanks to C, D, D & J for the stream of pick-me-ups, and especially for the sketch below, which speaks directly to my morning rage at ne...

call it values-based redistricting