At exactly this time — well, 3 hours ago on the east coast, actually — thirty-nine years ago, I was born. As my aunt Susie so kindly pointed out in a birthday card, in 1966: A new car cost $2,653 The [more...]
As I look in more detail at the finalists for a World Trade Center Memorial, I keep finding reasons not to like them. The first, and perhaps most instinctual, is that all the designs are light and uplifting — [more...]
I just realized this: on one side of my desk, I have one of those hutch things with a push-pin board. There are all sorts of things on the board, and I just noticed that where the items are placed depends on whether the [more...]
