Face it, everything is delayed these days: flights, traffic, tax refunds, construction projects, software releases. Nothing is EVER on time so we need to embrace the power of time-ish.
Read MoreSure, I like summer, but for the sheer giddy relief of it, for the prospect of stopping to chat with neighbors again, and taking walks on an isolated beach, and making left turns on Route Six without fearing for my life, there’s no holiday that brings more joy than Labor Day.
Read MoreWhen I was a teenager there was a recurring meme that offered a chance of escape from the dull and rigidly conformist world of my parents: run away and join circus. I finally got to.
Read MoreLiving as I do in a summer community, I have perfect neighbors. They have a beautiful house in the city. They hate cold weather. They don’t have children. They have an elderly dog. They love to travel. And it all adds up to one blissful trait: They’re almost never around.
Read MoreFlip-ups or clip-ons; wrap-arounds or wayfarers; John Lennon Teashades; Aviators; Clubmen, or oversized Jackie O’s like Elton John as Captain Fantastic: they do so much more than block the sun.
Read MoreBring on the automated vehicles. Machines don’t get drunk, don’t get road rage, and don’t find that driving itself is the distraction from everything else you can do in your car.
Read MoreToday I’m talking about us creative types, people who use their cars for the same purpose women use their pocketbooks and whose desks, even if they’re located in a cubicle, always seem to look like they’re next to an open window.
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine tourists abandoning Cape Cod in favor of less crowded, less dangerous, less expensive summer vacations, but it could happen…and fast.
Read MoreSchadenfreude is that tingle of satisfaction we get when we learn about the failures of others and if your garden sucks this year, it’s gonna make you feel really good to hear that mine is even is worse.
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