Category: THE IDEAS CLUB
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The Puzzle
If you’re like me, you’ve been making a list — and checking it twice — of all the people who really ticked you off this year. High on my tally is the knucklehead — for whom I’m sure there’s a special place reserved in hell — who designed the 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle Rich and I…
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
Every once in a while, our whimsical old Universe surprises me with a gift so lavish it leaves me breathless. This week it was a short film. Quality: horrible. Script: was there one? Acting: amateurish at best. But none of that mattered, because for the first time, I got to see my grandmother, Ramona Langley,…
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Have You Thought About This?
Is your dog beside you right now? If not, stop reading and go call them, because they are really going to want to hear this. It seems we humans finally have a way to enable our best friends to talk directly to us. And it’s a doggone shame this wasn’t around when my beloved Eskimo…
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We’ve Launched the Ideas Club of Seville!
“Ideas are like rabbits,” John Steinbeck once remarked. “You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” So true! During our first Ideas Club gathering, thoughts were hopping, leaping, and twirling around the room, proliferating like the proverbial bunnies. Everybody was jumping into the conversation, the way…
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The Ideas Club
THE ORIGIN STORY ”After long years of intense study, a student bursts into Einstein’s office shouting, “Sir, sir, I finally get it. I understand your theory of relativity!” Einstein rolls his eyes. “It’s about time.” As this joke demonstrates, there are some ideas so huge we’ll all be talking about them forever — so we…