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I wonder, every now and then, what it must be like to be famous. I don’t mean the vague sort of famous; double-take glances over the shoulder as you’re passed in the airport, with the ‘are you really the guy’ look that follows. I mean stop the room when you enter sort of famous. Hard [...] Every now and then, often where it is least expected, we experience truly incredible service; and when it happens it makes the event memorable – and at a small bistro north of Chicago on Friday night, it happened for us. We’d planned a casual dinner with friends who we’ve not seen for a while, opting for [...] September and October are always the busy season for me, with everyone back from summer holiday bliss and refocused on whatever tasks lie unfinished from the year’s list of goals. It’s the time of one last big push before the holiday season consumes us once again. During this time, we often scale back our lost [...] One of the most significant quality of life differences between the Midwest and New England has to be the ability to park one’s car remotely close to one’s destination on a regular basis. And while the exercise opportunity offered to the east coast driver is actually quite beneficial, as they trudge miles from some barely [...] Every now and then one is totally surprised by another’s good deed. With the days growing shorter as summer wanes, it becomes especially easy to grow hyper critical of those charged most directly with helping those in need, especially with the daily news filled with various creative misdeeds of local government officials. In 2003, perhaps [...] after 2600 miles across the US for MS I remember my first real taste of freedom. It came on a bright summer Saturday afternoon, back when I measured time entirely by what was likely to happen in each of the next ten minutes. Everything after, and I do mean absolutely everything, just didn’t exist. I’d [...] Parenting is often described as one of the hardest and most satisfying jobs on the planet – hard because it doesn’t come with an instruction manual (or perhaps I may have left mine on the chair at the hospital all those years ago) and satisfying because it is the second most forgiving profession, where you can make mistake after mistake and still produce happy, brilliant, beautiful, wonderful offspring. Imagine, just for a moment, that you speak – and nobody hears what you’re saying. It’s a common problem. Travelers, moving from experience to experience in a foreign land without the benefit of the local language. Students, moving from class to class while their educators, often experts in their field expressly rewarded for possessing more information [...] |
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