Archive for the ‘personal’ category
Progress Report, May 2008
You’ve probably noticed, if you visit this site often, that I’ve essentially dispensed with my old schedule. The write-about-this-today workings of that schedule were rather easy to attend to when I (thought I) had wealth of interesting ideas.
Recently, I’ve have a dry-spell in that category. And coupled with an even more stifling inability to sit […]
Necessarily Callous
Current figures suggest that more than 22,000 perished in Myanmar (Burma) this weekend. Now the story seems to be the most consequential in the world.
Yesterday’s figures suggested that more than 350 perished in Myanmar (Burma) this weekend. Then the story seemed like a regrettable natural disaster.
There’s that old axiom, attributed to Josef Stalin, that “one […]
Some Days You Just Can’t Write Anything
Today is one of those days.
Taking a Week
I’ve been thinking about taking a week off from this space for a while, and I finally reached the point where such thoughts become the official plan. I shall be back next week, same as ever.
“And Parody Myself”
I’ve become a parody of myself. I think it started — the day I was born is too easy an answer — on August 16, 2007. That was the fateful day when I made a posting schedule for this site.
Then I made the mistake of following said schedule. Looking back on what I wrote that day, I find it […]
