“I needed a system for finding the dead animals on the side of the road.” About four years ago, I typed these words in a dark room lit only by the monitor in front of me and those words. Let me back up a little. I am a writer. Even though my career took me [...]
Archive for February, 2009
A lifelong goal fulfilled.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Taking control of the memories I’m creating.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A couple of days ago, I was driving my son, Nicky, to kindergarten. This is something I get to do now. A few months ago, at the same time of day, I would have been checking the emails that had come in since leaving the day before. As we turned a corner toward the school, [...]
Pay attention to the water.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economy, jobs, joy, layoff, positive, unemployment on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, I read the text of a commencement speech delivered by the late author David Foster Wallace about four years ago. It started with a joke: Two young fish are swimming along and they encounter an older wiser fish, who greets them with a smile. “How’s the water, boys?” the older wiser fish asks. “Fine,” [...]
“When one door closes, another one opens.”
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