My family religiously observed the tradition of Sunday dinner (literally, since, as many readers know, family time is a Mormon fetish). Every other week we gathered for the whole evening⎯the grandparents, the siblings, and us, the first cousins. To say the teenaged me took these get-togethers for granted would be a huge understatement, [...]
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Dave’s Top 20/Bottom 10/Questionable 5 for 2009
So back in college, I worked for an off-campus student paper that some of you are familiar with. One of our longstanding features was a Top 20/Bottom 10, a concise and witty summing-up of the past week’s news. One of my favorite things about the feature was that the format made you focus on good [...]
Marathon minion
I suppose watching a marathon is not as hard as running one. Spectators do not get as sweaty. Some sit in lawn chairs, but most stand up, wedged against barriers and each other. There is not much movement on the sidelines. The cheerleaders can only tip toe up and down, squinting, trying to discern one [...]
The big blues marble
I first heard about global warming in the early ’80s. It was reported on by a local newscast, probably WPIX. I remember the jolly, post-story wrap up:
So New York might be as warm as Florida one day? Wow, that sounds great!
To recap our top story: beloved Yankee, Reggie Jackson, was traded to [...]
The discreet charm of the 40th birthday
A few weeks from now I will turn 40. It’s made me a little reflective lately. I’ve been thinking about birthdays and the important part they play in organizing the life process. Up until now birthdays have organized my life according to a series of very momentous rights of passage. They [...]
This I believe (pessimist edition)
I believe that this is just the beginning.
I believe that the economy will get worse and worse, as housing prices keep falling and unemployment keeps rising and corporations keep failing. I believe that, at some point, not only will it be difficult to find a job, it will be impossible—in fact, eventually the very idea [...]
Loops of grandeur
When I was in ninth grade I got a “C” on a spelling test. I was outraged. I responded by wielding the power of the press and, as editor of the school newspaper, wrote a scathing editorial about my English teacher’s unfair grading practices. The issue was not to defend my spelling, although in fact [...]
Borrowed resolutions
She was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size . . . Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Lewis Carroll
To express what one wishes, one must look [...]
Drop the freaking ball already!
What’s up TGW! Long time, no post, what? In the veritable interregnum between my TGW posts, a great deal has transpired, both personally and in the world at large.
I have done the ultimate cross country trip, moving out to New York and back to my beloved San Francisco in a matter of months. I flipped [...]
