Dear Diary:
Sunday
Got back from a destination wedding where two people with a great deal more clarity than I have vowed to spend the rest of their lives together. I am so happy for them, but can’t help wonder if I’ll ever be ready to do that. Having just ended a 9.5-year relationship with someone great, [...]
If you’re wondering whether our country is still more or less a democracy (let alone the kind of state that might help bring about whirled peas or whatever), you must not have read the Washington Post series on Dick Cheney and his frightening influence on the country these past six years. He’s been astonishingly effective [...]
What provokes your strongest reaction, dear reader, in today’s TGW title: the spelling or the idea? Basically, I wanted to avoid the pat reaction that some might have after reading such utopian words—world peace! (spelled correctly)—at the top of the page today.Well, what does happen to you when you encounter these words (spelled correctly)—on a [...]
One of these is bound to come true and make me look prophetic. Or at least it’ll get made into a movie with Ethan Hawke or something.
Large- and medium-seized companies undergo a management revolution when they discover that reality-television-style competitions among employees have a dramatic (although short-term) effect on productivity. Sex-discrimination laws are changed to [...]
Just one week after several Whatsiters attended an intimate wedding on the oxygen-deprived shores of Lake Tahoe (for TGW commenters Bacon and Andrea), a number of us converged again on the banks of the St. Lawrence, in Montreal, for wedding number two: this time for the nuptials of TGW’s beloved Dr. Cedric Cedarbrook and his man G-Lock.
Although this was [...]