Woohooo!
Today is the first day of school out where I live! The kids on the block; and their screaming and giggling and just general kookiness have subsided. Thank goodness…now I can get some business done.
But wait:
I wonder if all that racket hasn’t somehow contributed to my idea development?
After all, what can yield more creativity than the sight of two pre-teen girls wheeling each other around, during a hurricane in a trash bin — while on their cell phones, describing this activity to their friends?
Perhaps when they have to write their “What I did over my summer vacation”, I will have …read more

It will probably be a while (read, never) before my colleagues at b5media.com allow me to author a blog, entitled, “married without children”…but I thought I would share some insight here anyway.
If you are marooned out in the suburbs–and you don’t have children, it can sometimes be like living in Superman’s “Bizaar-O” world, where everything is the opposite of what it really is.
Once again, I take you to my local “gi-NOUR-mo” store…the supermarket: Have you seen the size of milk and juice containers? They’re huge–why is that? And 16 pork chops in one package? Why, is …read more

The family adjacent to our home is from China. Every morning a 6:00am sharp, the matriarch of their family, possibly in her 70’s…is out in her back yard doing some form of Chinese exercise/meditation. Some of the movements appear to be quite strenuous, or at least take a good amount of concentration and sometimes make her look like a character from an Asian film.
Since they’ve lived here, this older woman hasn’t missed a day of morning exercises. I am lucky if I get 3 push-ups done in a week. Son and daughter-in-law of this woman are both bio-quantum-engineer genius-types…and their …read more