Friday, September 10, 2021 Work: An End Unto Itself As a species, we are designed for work. Without it, we wither physically, spiritually, mentally, and morally. A lack of work can literally kill us – a very slow death. Our culture, however, has trained us to consider work as –…
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 Too Much Noodling, Not Enough Nattering OK, I’ve noodled around with this newsletter long enough. And not enough, or it would have been out weeks ago. Its main topic is snails, but the ideas have been moving at less than a snail’s pace in my beady…
Sunday, June 13, 2021 Flag Day Within the space of four and a half weeks every year, the United States of America has three national days the feature our National Colors prominently: Memorial Day, Flag Day, and the Fourth of July. Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day, so I thought…
Sunday, May 30, 2021 Some of My “Hunh?” Moments Andy Rooney used to have a segment on a weekly news commentary show on television, which he called “Did You Ever Wonder?” I never watched the show, but he did gain widespread recognition for his segments, because they did make people…
Friday, May 7, 2021 Things Outdoors Spring is getting the upper hand. We had some warm days in March and April, prompting the flowers and trees to strut their stuff earlier than usual. But, this being New England, the weather changed – one day it topped 80, the next day…
Thursday, April 8, 2021 The Life in Words and Ideas Life gets busier all the time, doesn’t it? I’m still playing catch-up from my February overload. I’m getting there, but of course, I keep adding new projects and ideas to the list. Words and thoughts occupy me constantly – probably…
Saturday, March 13, 2021 I’m late, I’m late … I know, I know. You’ve been waiting for this issue of N&N for weeks. Yep, I’m WAY overdue. But I have an excuse. (They are handy to cover one’s butt. Always keep a few in stock for emergencies. When in doubt,…
Friday, February 5, 2021 What Do Readers Want? Online colleagues have addressed this idea recently, and a four-week online course I’m taking is presenting the same thing from a business angle. So it has me pondering. Write what your readers want to read. I’m not quite sure what…
Monday, January 11, 2021 Grace In the second issue of this newsletter, I wrote a piece called “Grace,” about an old man, once a master pianist, struggling with a disconnect between his brain and his fingers on the keyboard, and the gentle encouragement of the audience at the coffeehouse willing…
Monday, December 21, 2020 The Great Relocation Quite a few of you out there in NewsletterLand have undoubtedly been busy relocating snow in the past few days. So have I. We all have snow tales to tell, some of them tall (some of them far taller than the mounds of…
