Behind the Ironic Column

…The pedometer situation is beginning to seem silly.  Not that pedometers themselves are silly – I love them and that’s just the problem.  My hall bookshelf now has three different pedometers lined up on it in varying degrees of disarray or malfunction.    The transparent ...

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Strike two for Indolence over Industry.   Even after Monday’s misadventure, I woke up Tuesday thinking I really should get some of those chores crossed off the list.  Some of them couldn’t be done because I needed the full use of all ten fingers, but there were others that ...

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Indolence vs industry – just when I convince myself that I should get some of the backed-up chores completed, and choose industry over indolence, I’m punished either for the industry itself or for the previous round of indolence that let me leave my gardening gloves out on the balcony ...

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I can’t remember ever before seeing a movie that discussed dramatic irony and literary themes and was laugh-out-loud funny as well.  “Stranger than Fiction” covers all of those bases and throws in a few shades of understanding regarding the stress of writer’s block.  Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is ...

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OK, I know about manna and about things that you really need in your life suddenly manifesting themselves.  But tomatoes? Most of the things that have been falling from the heavens in Portland lately are raindrops – and occasionally leaves swirling down from the ...

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