Pint-sized philosophy
As published in the Tampa Tribune March 17, 2008. The Irish have been known to knock out a poem or two (think Seamus, Oscar, Van). Poetry, which for me is just another form of philosophy, is in their blood it seems, and while I’ve been known to wax poetic, I’m neither Irish nor poet. But […]
Tiny tech talk
R U there? I ♥ U! G2G! TTYL! Somebody, please …GMAB! (Give me a break!) With all the smaller, faster technologies available now, people seem obsessed with saying not very much at all, but saying it at lightening speed.
A Season for Believing
As published in the Tampa Tribune November 21, 2007. Years ago, late on a Sunday afternoon, I found myself sitting in my favorite café in the North End of Boston, calculating whether to buy another cappuccino or save the few dollars I had in my pocket for subway tokens to get back and forth to […]
Dateless in Sarasota aka the KitKat Man
Did you know that Sarasota is one of the best cities in the country to be single and dating … as long as you’re over 55 and pulling down $200,000 a year!? I came across that tidbit of information recently in Sarasota Magazine and have been debating moving back to Boston ever since. Actually, I’m […]
Out on a limb for love
Another September 11th has come and gone. Six of them now since the first, and we’re still afraid. Maybe even more afraid. Of terrorists, of global warming, of war, of the stock market. But mostly we’re afraid of each other.
Leave the bum … take the cannoli
Love lessons, Mafia-princess style: “Leave the bum … take the cannoli.” If you’ve fallen in with a loser (he’s addicted to television, never has any cash, doesn’t like to work), don’t hire your local goodfella to take him for a one-way walk. Just drop the bum like yesterday’s (bad) news and leave him on the […]
Lunar romance
The mind is a prickly beast. It disbelieves almost everything the heart believes. It takes the heart to task for being foolish. It demands that we ignore feelings in favor of facts. To a large extent, this is a good thing. We can’t run around willy-nilly to the whims of a red, thumping reactionary like […]
Planet America
Poor Pluto’s been relegated to the planetary sidelines by the addition of just one word. He’s still a planet of sorts, but now the distinction is clear – he’s a “dwarf planet.” A lot of people seemed to feel that this new label was a pejorative Pluto doesn’t deserve. Behind the sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, […]
Vulcan tendencies
This column original appeared in print in July, 2006. “I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.” – Mr. Spock, Star Trek I get asked all the time by friends, strangers, readers of this column, and the occasional ex-boyfriend, — why I’m “still” single.