Monthly Archives: January 2015

How do you feel about your local police? My experience with our police department has been great. The station is only about a block away, and I used to go there often to get the key to the animal shelter. … Continue reading →

In a recent comment on one of her posts, Ursula wrote My dear Jean, please do stop deluding yourself: Happiness is NOT a “practice”. Spiritual or otherwise. Happiness is a by-product of daily life, a surge, a fleeting moment, a … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a great day here. First I read Ursula’s friendly comment on my post, then I read tammy’s comment at Montana Moments. Either one was enough to put a smile on my face for the rest of the day. … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal column, Don’t Do It Mr. Romney*, Peggy Noonan wrote He’d have been a better president than Obama. That’s not nearly enough. Whether or not she’s right about Romney, that line succinctly expresses her main idea: … Continue reading →

A few months ago I phoned an acquaintance that I had known years ago to see how she and her husband were doing. She didn’t answer, and I didn’t leave a message. I knew that she has Caller ID and … Continue reading →

Well, it came! I tried just a smidgen straight last night, and it was pretty much as I expected. Yes, I know that’s not a fair test, so I’ll try a bit as a flavoring in spaghetti tonight. Or maybe … Continue reading →

According to a Washington Post article, Why Chipotle’s pork problem is a bad sign for its future, the restaurant chain Chipolte’s Mexican Grill has stopped serving pork items in about a third of its restaurants — one of its major … Continue reading →

It was a light-snowy, no sun day, so Andy took advantage of the weather to burn some slash. Down here in the apartment it was a cozy, contemplative day. I’ve been pondering one of my favorite quotes: It is something … Continue reading →

“Habemus a front page,” Gérard Biard, one of the paper’s top editors, said with a smile, emerging from the staff’s makeshift newsroom and deploying the phrase used to announce a new pope. To find the right image, he said: “We … Continue reading →

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening … Continue reading →