Monthly Archives: January 2009

So, now it’s up to the Super Bowl: Can a dozen 320-pound linemen, a few thousand tailgate parties, and 17 million barrels of sour cream dip do what Thanksgiving, the December holidays, and New Year’s Eve failed to accomplish? Can … Continue reading →

A memory: It is a Saturday night in 1973, and I am at a birthday party in a classmate’s apartment. The rooms are filled with fellow sixth-graders from Northeast Elementary School in Stamford, Conn. There are, in my recollection, about … Continue reading →

How much money is enough money? It makes a difference who you’re asking. Enough money in, for instance, the Navajo Nation northwest of Gallup, N.M., is very different from enough money on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Ca. It also … Continue reading →

This week Molly Pesce of http://www.bn.com named “Skeletons at the Feast” her # 1 tag of 2008. To see the video and all ten of Molly’s tags, click here.

Last October my wife told me she was ready to venture to the Addison County Humane Society and get a cat. (Note the singular: A cat.) 2008 had been a hard year for our family in the pet department because … Continue reading →

There are a great many reasons why I was downright jubilant back on Nov. 5 and have vacillated between unrestrained giddiness and a more appropriate middle-aged optimism ever since. Part of my exhilaration was the election of Barack Obama and … Continue reading →