Day Memorial, Glorious and Laborious

May 31, 2010

I have always tended to confabulate Labor Day and Memorial Day.  For one thing, it just doesn’t make sense to me that something sad, like remembering the dead, should happen just as summer is starting to show up (even if today marks the third anniversary of Ellie’s death, and summer, my birthday in fact, marked […]

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Many Truths, One Consciousness

May 30, 2010

A recent Op-Ed piece by Tenzin Gyasto (the Dalai Lama), “Many Faiths, One Truth,” is well worth living (it’s also worth reading, but it’s in the living, together, of what he says that we find freedom and true well-being). My one and only TV Show that I directed was called “Tales From The Dark Side,” […]

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Fractured Fairy Tale

May 29, 2010

Once upon a time there was a grandiose troublemaker named Miller.  He lived in the land of kings, but after he pimped his daughter out by saying she could spin straw into gold, his own name was mud and he got way out of Dodge.  Dodging his family and his old life, he got on […]

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Honoring Ellie

May 28, 2010

Last year I wrote about Ellie on the anniversary of her death, but this year I choose to write about her on the anniversary of her birth, in 1926.  Parents can be difficult, but watching Andy lose both her parents has been a profound experience—one that in some way or other everyone can relate to, […]

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Middle School Masochism

May 27, 2010

A recent New York Times article, “Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls,” by Tamar Lewin looked at a burgeoning internet trend wherein subscribers to sites such as Formspring can get anonymous (i.e. uncensored and brutally honest… or perhaps cruelly dishonest) feedback from others, which they can then elect to delete from their private […]

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Mind of the Colony

May 26, 2010

As parents and bloggers, we often run short on time, and so I doubt you will have opportunity to curl up with a copy of Ant Encounters:  Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior, by Deborah M. Gordon any time soon.  She is a researcher at Stanford who has spent a lot of time watching ants. She […]

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Sardonic Kiss

May 25, 2010

I have always carried the sense that the world is a mystical place in which strange visions, dreams and coincidences carry meanings that interweave us all together at levels beyond our conscious understanding.  As it happens, I’ve recently become blogging buddies with Terry Castle… and only when I noticed her career interest in producing horror […]

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Dr. Livingston in my living room, I presume

May 24, 2010

An article in Sunday’s New York Times, “Families’ Every Fuss Archived and Analyzed,” looked at comprehensive research being done on middle class American (Angeleno, to be precise) families.  After hours of tape (in the school of the 1970’s PBS documentary on the Loud family more than the lurid sensationalism of “reality” TV) where families were meticulously […]

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Between Pruf and a hard rock

May 23, 2010

Let us blog now you and I With new world words set out against virtual sky Like a still-corded baby upon a belly; Let us surf through certain half-deserted tweets, The stuttering retweets Of restless nights in one-post cheap no-tells And no-comment days and reader swells; Posts that meander like a convoluted love quarrel Of […]

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They say it’s your birthday

May 22, 2010

We all love our kids and I am no exception.  While I can hardly believe that my son, Nate, turns sixteen today, I struggle about just the right sort of blog post to honor this event. I’m quite sure that Nate would not much care for a public trip down memory lane.  I can hardly […]

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