We are all so overscheduled, so committed to almost every waking hour that, I swear, even the dog sometimes looks up and thinks “oh, gawed!…not the mailman again, I just barked at him yesterday!”
I thought that on this sweltering Father’s Day, you might get a kick from reading Alex Williams’piece in The New York Times Sunday Styles section, in which the operative phrase is “Can We Reshcedule?”.
I do hope your day is filled with nothing but The World Cup finals, a hot dog and a beer.

In America, The World Series is not really a world anything–although some could argue that teams are made up of players from all over the world, but that would be lame…and teams from Canada do not exactly spell global. Only in the U.S. would we be brash enough to call it a WORLD Series, as opposed to The National League vs. The American League Match-Up.

Nope, the real world deal is the Soccer World Cup Finals…or Football in most countries. However, I’m not sure why, but “as American as soccer and mom’s apple pie” doesn’t have the same ring as baseball …read more