Writing the good read
The first day of spring may have arrived two months ago now, but today was the first really warm spring day in the Seattle area. The thermometer topped 70 degrees for the first time — briefly — and outside smelled of cut lawns and the lemony smell of things blooming. Let’s say tomorrow is the…
I spent what will hopefully will be the last nice spring day in a periodontist chair today. I really like these guys. They don’t see my great dental insurance when I walk in the door, which is a novel experience. Most dentists try to talk me into braces and quarterly cleanings because they’re covered. These…
I just got back from seeing Bridesmaids, the new film by Kristen Wiig. It was, indeed, as funny as everyone says. It does, indeed, prove that women can be righteously funny and carry a movie that isn’t a romantic comedy. And the scene in the bridal boutique, was, indeed, gratuitous. I got a little nostalgic…
I have written about healthcare and the healthcare industry for more than 15 years now. In that time, I have interviewed some of the highest of the high muckety-mucks in the industry. I interviewed Donald Berwick, now the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, when he was with the Institute for Healthcare…
I plan on finding the energy to floss my teeth and moisturize. Aside from that today is a loss. My son, who learned to share young, has shared his bad-ass spring cold with me and I have literally spent 30 of the last 36 hours in bed and don’t plan on being vertical again for…
I need to come back to the issue of fair. I struggle almost daily with the fact that I can’t see “fair” in the world, that there isn’t an evident balancing out of good and evil. I want to see the people who do wrong brought to justice and those who do right rewarded. But…
I just finished Bossypants by Tina Fey. It was okay, kind of funny. But I am increasingly disillusioned with the literary efforts of funny television and film stars. Over the years I’ve picked up books by Paul Reiser, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jerry Seinfeld. None of them were as funny as I hoped. The alternative was…
There are maybe 150 bloggers writing daily in the merry month of May as part of the third annual WordCount Blogathon. A few days ago, I mentioned a few of the gems I’d found. I’m more than halfway through the alphabet and have another batch I’ll keep visiting or subscribe to after this month is…
I’ve been going through old pictures of my grandparents and great-grandparents with my son as he puts together a family history presentation for his US history class. On the Hubbell side of the family, we know everything you can know from the 1640s on, when Richard Hubball first walked onto the shores of Colonial America….
I have to apologize. I asserted a week or so ago that I had an uncanny knack for choosing my reading and finding that the books had an unexpected relationship to each other. The next two books I read have proved my statement a lie. At least this time. I read The Uncoupling after reading…