This year I’ve already been to two funerals and I sincerely hope that the almost one a week pace is not going to continue. Both of the funerals were for people around my age who leave dozens and dozens of bereft family and friends. For both there was music – Pearl’s A Singer and Tom […]
Finding positivity in the face of more exits than entrances
Generally, in both blogland and the real world, I try to adopt a position of merciless positivity. I am convinced there is a silver lining under every cloud even if it’s of the what-doesn’t-bust-you.. variety. Lately, though, we seem to have been surrounded by more cruel coincidences than seems right by anyone’s measure. I hasten […]
First footing – with the coal, a few useful nuggets
A bucket list of Things to do…
I’ve been writing the ultimate to-do list – a bucket list, if you will. Nothing in particular has prompted it and the last few days of 2010, my 43rd year, aren’t especially auspicious. It’s just that time is passing and, if I’m going to get Things done, I’d really better get cracking. The past 12 […]