Archive for December, 2008
A Day at a Time
Thursday, December 25th, 2008Christmas 1996 was split three ways for our family. There was the at-home gift distribution to our children, Lindsay and Connor. There was the wider gift exchange at my parents’ house. Finally, Christmas dinner at my grandmother’s included an array of uncles, aunts and cousins and yet another gift exchange. It was all so very […]
Don’t Worry About What You Can’t See
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Listening to NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday, I heard an interview with Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the National Hockey League. O’Ree entered the NHL as a winger for the Boston Bruins in January 1958. He is now director of youth development for the NHL’s diversity program and a respected elder statesman in the […]
In the Quiet
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008Usually by around this time of the Christmas season, I’m borderline nuts. I’m almost always behind on Christmas shopping, Christmas cards and deadlines at work (which are accelerated due to the holidays).
“How am I going to get everything done in the next two weeks?” I’m asking myself, realizing even as I ask that some items […]
Happiness Meter
Friday, December 5th, 2008On my commute to work and back home each day, I pass several gas stations. Prices were well over $3 a gallon just a few months ago, but they’ve hung consistently around $1.55 the past few weeks.
Cruising past yet another sign with a mere dollar-something-or-other emblazoned next to every grade of gas, even premium, I […]
The Two-Millennia Line
Monday, December 1st, 2008On Thanksgiving, our neighbors Al and Evelyn joined our family and friends at my parents’ house. Al served in the Pacific during World War II. It was fascinating to hear first-hand accounts of island invasions.
Al’s stories got me to thinking of the diminishing number of World War II veterans still living. Very likely, my grandkids […]
