Ocean

My mother’s favorite movie would have to be Pollyanna . You know, the one about the young girl (Hayley Mills, actually; God, I loved her fil...

In reponse to the post below about movie titles that best describe my days, a reader writes: Thinking about a title for your movie is intere...

I woke up thinking that maybe I could face up to the creative challenge of coming up with a movie title that would best summarize the state ...

Today I got up and brushed aside any thought that I did not want the day to begin. I did not begin the morning with writing a blog post. I d...

I would not make a good capitalist: I never caught that overwhelming desire to beat out the other guy in the marketplace. The more, the bett...

Last night I received an email from the daughter of my closest friends in Warsaw. She is a woman of great poise and intelligence. And tact. ...

First of all, if you’re looking for a post detailing my own mental breakdown or decline – forget it. This ain’t it. I’m writing about a movi...

I come back home and inspected the premises. Ah! They had spent some time in the master bedroom! A short pause in the living room, a peak at...

I’ve been thinking a lot about them lately (mine are grown, living a thousand miles away). On my long drive to the farm this morning, I was ...

I promise I’ll stop soon with the quotes. It’s just that there is some poetic thorn out there and once it wedges itself into your day, it’s ...

Oh so early, my song this morning was at the daybreak level of early. watching the sun crawl up between the branches I know, Ocean ap...

Because you are so pretty to look at? at jo's: sip it with the Times and a round of chess at jo's: sweeten it (no!) or drink it pl...

Being a post-war baby in Poland can really cause you to enter the world not kicking and screaming, but coughing and gasping. I was not a hea...

Sometime in the last 24 hours I realized that I have too much on my plate right now. Which then caused me to ‘fess up to myself that I am on...

Ah, kef ! How great it is to watch a person work so damn hard and then succeed! Did you ever have one of those days where you think: okay, i...

(10:00a.m. phone rings, my heart leaps) Hello?? It’s me . Oh. Sigh... Don't mind me -- I am only reminding myself of days when I waited ...

So I crashed on Mr. B three weeks ago. Immediately after, I learned that Lance crashed exactly the same time, on a practice run in France. ...

I can’t believe it: there is a combination of roads that allows me to bike from downtown Madison to my house, without an incline steep enoug...

This spring, I had again returned to the mountain town of Zakopane in Poland. Less than 100 kilometers from Krakow, it nonetheless took over...

When you are dealing with a crazed person, it's best to not get yourself all hot and bothered. A confrontation isn't going to set th...