Posted in Greeting Cards, Noticed, Travel, tagged Inch Beach, Ireland on December 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The time was September, and the place was Inch. Inch Beach in the southwest of Ireland.
Did you ever have a moment of total peace and complete clarity that felt so good you didn’t want it to end? I had my 2008 moment at Inch Beach.
The picture really does tell the story. Nearly four months later, [...]
Posted in Digital World, Living in the Past, Noticed, People, tagged Canon, Land camera, New York Times, Polaroid on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’d just finished uploading nearly 400 vacation pictures, when I came across this great article in the Sunday Times on the end of an era. Polaroid is ending production of film for its instant cameras.
I enjoy photography, and I love digital photography. I use a small Canon Elph that I can hook on my belt or [...]
Posted in Noticed, People, Sports, tagged Elena Delle Donne, ESPN, Geno Auriemma, Outside the Lines, UConn, women's basketball on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I’d rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I’m this face of women’s basketball when I can’t stand the sport at all.”
So said Elena Delle Donne to Mark Schwarz on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”
There is still a great deal of interest [...]
Posted in Diatribes, Media, Noticed, tagged ABC, jewelry, Paul Pierce, spelling on December 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Good thing I lost my voice, or I would have screamed at my television set (and we all know that does no good, right?) on Christmas Day.
On ABC (the American Broadcasting Company, for God’s sake) they were introducing the starting five for the Celtics against the Lakers, and there it was on my screen: PAUL PEIRCE.
The [...]
Posted in Greeting Cards, tagged Chrissie Hynde, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, The Pretenders on December 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”
Over the years, it’s become my favorite Christmas song. It’s layered in melancholy, with a sprinkle of hope. (“Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow.”) And given the state of our nation right now, it may be the perfect holiday song for the times.
The song [...]
Posted in It's all about me, Noticed, People, tagged I Know This Much Is True, She's Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb on December 22, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I got this unusual message from a former colleague Sunday night: “Did you know you’re mentioned in Wally Lamb’s new book, “The Hour I First Believed?”
Why no, I did not.
He told me it was on page 353: “…they’d shown the victim’s high school yearbook picture, and Gerry Brooks from Channel 30 had asked anyone who [...]
Posted in It's all about me, Noticed, TV Stuff, Weather, tagged snow, storm, winter on December 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Winter officially started Sunday, and I have a new attitude this year. Instead of dreading the season, I plan to enjoy it.
As I write this, the sun is shining (finally!) and it is a bright, beautiful stone cold scene outside my window. (The picture was taken by NBC 30 viewer Dave Martino.)
I do believe I [...]
Posted in It's all about me, Noticed, tagged It's A Wonderful Life, Pottersville, Bedford Falls, New York Times on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thank God I’m not alone!!!
I really do enjoy the annual airing of “It’s A Wonderful Life” (which is strange, because we own the movie). But I always thought Pottersville was an infinitely more interesting place than Bedford Falls. And a helluva lot more fun.
Any private guilt I felt over this is gone after reading this [...]
