Archive for 2014/10


Suze Orman

She reminds me of my father. I never watched her CNBC show, I really had no idea who she was, but Felice kept turning her on at 6 every Saturday and I’ve become hooked. Because she’s the voice of reason in an unreasonable world. I like to think I know everything. But I was stunned […]

You’re On Your Own

You either know how to research or you don’t, you either know how to find the answers or you don’t. My iPhone arrived. And despite a seamless backup from the cloud, in this case iCloud, I’ve got questions and the only place to find answers is online. That’s why I stay with a Mac, never […]

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

An eight year old girl in war-torn Chechnya? Really? It’s a girl’s book. I’ve never heard any guy talk about it. When it comes to the domestic sagas of overseas personages the females eat them up and the males don’t even start. Which is why I had no intention of reading Anthony Marra’s “A Constellation […]

Rhinofy-Peter, Paul and Mary Primer

500 MILES Could be the first Peter, Paul and Mary track I ever heard. A staple at summer camp, it was emblematic of the folk boom, hell, we even had a folk TV show, “Hootenanny.” Everybody knew the lyrics and longhaired girls strummed the tune on acoustic guitars and this could have been the first […]