Blue (State) Hawaii
January 06, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
My kids—who behave as if they are political veterans after we dragged them up to N.H. three years ago to hold signs for Kerry—have both commented separately in the last week on how quiet I’m being about the election this time around.
It’s true, I’m pretty sanquine. Or maybe it’s just cynicism:...
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Listmania!
December 10, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
1). Like every other publication this time of year, the New York Times is full of lists (stories, as T and I like to say, that write themselves, leaving busy reporters free to shop and cook and decorate like the rest of us).
I have to confess, my heart was in my mouth when I saw The 53 Places...
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Monkey in the middle
November 18, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Know how sometimes you’re blinded to your own bad habits until you see them reflected in someone else?
How, say, you’ll be driving somewhere with your teenaged son sitting next to you chewing up the inside of his cheek till it bleeds, and you’ll go, oh God, I know where he got that from? Or at...
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My Man-Crush Done Good
October 12, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Call me an out-of-touch, over-the-hill, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal, but I love me some Al Gore and always have, even way back before his VP gig. He’s like Clinton without the handsiness. Actually, he’s what a lot of us thought Clinton was.
I know he’s a little bit of a sanctimonious...
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Are You Sure?
September 30, 2007
Filed in: The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
Over at the Practically Perfect blog, Jennifer is remarking upon the phenomenon of magazines, now even men’s magazines, spending all their editorial energy telling their readers how to improve the little, improvable parts of their lives while pretty much ignoring both the Big Questions and the...
