Life

You Don’t Have to Be a Genius to Make the World a Better Place

9 April 2012

Sometimes a desire to clean and toss things out possesses me. The ensuing upheaval creates chaos, but I feel better afterwards. During a recent downsizing, I found several items of value, among them a letter written over two decades ago. The letter’s signature,  “Your loving, but weird, brother,” brought a smile. I made a cup [...]

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Needed: Etiquette Book for Technology Users

16 February 2011

When I posted the last blog entry, there were more comments regarding the blog on my Facebook Wall than here. I feel that the comments were making some excellent points, and I wanted to respond to them. David points toward manners rather than technology: “I don’t believe there has been a paradigm shift where communication is [...]

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Technology: Is It Changing the Way We Communicate?

11 February 2011

Last year, my oldest daughter told me about two teenagers who were out on what she assumed was a date. They sat next to each other, not talking but texting from their phones. Shortly after our conversation, I was at a birthday party for my friend’s daughter. The daughter was rather unhappy with her mother. [...]

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Don’t Litter the Stage with Bodies

17 September 2010

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. –William Shakespeare, Hamlet These are Polonius’s last words to his son Laertes. Polonius is often described as a wise man; however, I would argue that while his words [...]

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