Think of the oldest female and male living person you know and record a skill or experience they had that you would like to learn more about before it is too late. My answers: Male:  My great grandfather J.L. Carpenter  (age 95) started worrying about the great depression in the early days of the depression  Read more »

Brian and I, on impulse, went downtown to see Chasing Nicolette at the Prince last night.  The weather was icky and we took the El (the Prince is 2 blocks from a station).   We got there with 5 minutes to spare and found ourr seats (14th row smack dab center).  The show was incredible.   Its set  Read more »

 1. pick up the nearest book to you. 2. find the 123 page 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you. ‘Fandes almost swatted her  Read more »

I know lots of people have heard me talking about the book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond.    He has a new book that came out last month.  I plan to buy it this weekend but I wanted to include an excerpt from the opening chapter in hopes that someone besides me will read  Read more »

I really can’t stand when people send me an e-mail and then walk across the office to my desk a minute later to check to see if I got it.