No big deal. I mean, I was doing it this past summer, when things were too hot indoors, just stretched out on the terrace. Mostly I’d wake up in the middle of the night, cool enough to go back inside and sleep, but once or twice I made it to the dawn. I’ve always preferred waking up with a slow inc...
It isn’t often that a TedTalk provokes actual belly laughter. Snickers yes, sometimes an appreciative titter. But outright guffaws? I can’t remember too many, and certainly not sustained through an entire presentation. Ursus Wehrli managed it, in a talk filmed in February 2006 but only recently u...
I had a blog before I knew what a blog was. The internet version of a quarterly newsletter, lovingly hand-coded with table cells that looked like index card tabs, and every quarter I recoded everything to keep it up to date. Imagine my surprise when I joined a giant organization and discovered I’d...
Some things never change. I remember going through almost exactly this line of reasoning not once but twice, for different girls, about 40 years ago. In neither case did things work out the way I wanted. In one, things worked out very much the way she wanted, which was and is great. In the other...
Never explain, never apologize? Crap, fit only for posturing ninnies. If someone doesn’t understand, you have failed to communicate; you need to explain. And if you’ve done something wrong, why not say sorry? You may not think it was wrong, but someone else did. You failed to communicate, so explai...
