Marginalia
While I sit here..
While I sit here eating bagels with cream cheese and drinking coffee too fast, it is 6.30pm somewhere in the world. Someone, somewhere is playing hip-hop loudly while getting dressed for a third date. Someone is tumbling out of bed with a crick in their neck and promising to restart yoga from tomorrow. Someone is [...]
Of clean slates and firm resolve..
January, the month of abstinence, to make up for all the revelry of December, is also an excellent time to take stock of the 12 months that zipped by, and make plans for the next year. To help you along the road to firm resolutions, here is a roundup of the best New Years’ bits [...]
Sunny Spring Mornings
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift. – Tom Stoppard
Life is..
I make plans, dream little dreams, dream bigger ones. Think of how I’ll be when I finally grow up.. Of all the things I want to do, places I want to see, people I want to be. But life? Life doesn’t care so much about the five year plans and long-term goals. Life is chilly [...]
Ten Years Ago
I did not own a mobile phone. This was probably a good thing, since mobile phones were the size of a ham radio – not including the extendable antenna The computer I used had a CRT monitor, as did my television There was no Facebook There was also no broadband. You could fire up the [...]
