Dentistry at dawn
Starting early
Morris Reisman
R.i.p., the inventor of the corn-brush
Beeps in the night
Ladybug alert
My dad in 1942
A photograph
Of weather
"Bleak am I, says the weather. Woe is me, says I."
"Betty's Graduation"
Suprisingly poignant dialogue from Father Knows Best
Metaphors for life
Gilgamesh and the Odyssey rule.
Diane, Nadine
Almost the same.
The parsnip
“Hail to thee, blithe parsnip!”
Thought for the day
“The road to the health-food store is paved with good intentions.”
Time, its rapid passing, an everyday example of
Terry Jones of Monty Python on time passing
Red Cross
Donating for international disaster aid
ML + EF
Married twenty-five years
Jonathan Kozol, advice for students
"Life goes so fast"
Marcia Lebow (1919–2009)
From a beautifully written obituary for an extraordinary person
A riddle
An illuminated manuscript from the second grade
Rob Zseleczky on clutter and stuff
"I need less crap, even if it’s great crap."
"Exercise boosts brain power"
Advice from John Medina's Brain Rules
Dungarees
From Caroline's Crayons, a story in ten drawings and two photographs
Net yes
Picture from a box of hairnets
Orange Crate Art: Country, country, or country
Three choices of music
"Tests," "tears"
Fun at the eye doctor
Mysteries of the tollbooth
"A tollbooth's interior is mysterious — most people haven't seen what' s in there."
Nick DeMaio and the Eldorado
On a Bronx bar: "I’m amazed to think that I was probably ordering beers from a man who had been serving them during Prohibition."
For R.L.
Music for a trip
Brain food!
Cracker Jack in the shape of a brain
"Old-world skillz"
E.g., "Calculating how many lines to leave for a footnote (yes, with a manual typewriter)."
"More square"
"He was dressed sort of like you, but more square."
Work and online life
On "work-relevant characteristics of online life"
November 27, 1958
Photograph of the blogger as a young man