Ocean

signs of spring? not really...

I am a baby-boomer. Our cohort has been variously described, but no one has yet given us this ancillary label which I do believe is apt: we ...

Americans are unconvinced about the need to privatize Social Security. Good. So am I. But catching the debate on privatization on the other ...

There was a time when the mere mention of the word “feminism” in Poland would make people laugh. Did you know that American women are asking...

In demonstrating that he can say something nice about President Bush, Oscar writes : he was good to his friends. I wonder if that’s true…Bec...

Yesterday I did get two wishes in the end for a “ Happy Women’s Day :” one from a friend who was told to do it (“wish me a Happy Women’s Day...

I heard Bush Sr. refer to Clinton yesterday as the Energizer Bunny . Now, I do not mind that a former president promotes a certain brand of ...

And I don’t think she meant in a good way. Perhaps she detected some ossification of traits she had wished would go away. Or, she suddenly s...

Lyrics to a Polish song... they mean: me, I would like to give you slightly different flowers ... Why is this in my head? Why am I playing t...

On March 8th (because just about everyone likes getting flowers), for you. 

When I post something, even with anonymity, about someone who reads Ocean , I am filled with trepidation and anxiety. Not the sort that lead...

The bowl of chili is hot, the corn bread straight from the oven, the salad crisp and full of cut up fresh vegetables. The talk falls to Pari...

In a New Yorker tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, it was stated that Thompson’s “ true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He used to type ...

The title of the previous post made me think of the hours upon hours of my youth spent on guitar playing. If someone were to ask – and how ...

As I read through yet another stack of Law School Admissions files, I am struck by how neatly I can group candidate statements into three: t...

Two people experience a loss. They recover their sanity and their cheer in the course of a road trip. They decide that road trips are the wa...

Isn’t it funny that a chapter on the Polish language should itself make use of a term in a way that is incorrect in that given context! A re...

An morning walk on a sunny day revealed this:

only one small patch so far, but it's enough to make you grin.