Things I’m Thankful For, But Wasn’t Always
I don’t remember exactly what had happened, but one day a few years ago I said to myself, “I’m thankful for the ACLU.” Then I thought, “That was weird.” In all the years that I had known about the ACLU I had never been consciously thankful for that organization. Or unconsciously either. Founded in 1920, […]
Is this a test?
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but he couldn’t find one that was suitable. Something was always wrong. Perhaps they had bad table manners. Maybe they were very unprincess-like in some other way. Then one evening a young girl knocked on the castle door. It was raining […]
The results are (almost) in
Quick, who won the Super Bowl in 1973? Who won The Masters in 1985? Who won the World Series in 1964? That’s three different sports, three different decades, and at the time they were all big news. Their importance in our lives shrinks over time, however, for two reasons. The first is that they are […]
