Archive for March, 2007

A penny for your thoughts…

I don’t smoke any more – in fact I never really smoked much even back in the day.  I never could remember to carry cigarettes with me, which is a sure sign of non-addiction.   And people who come to visit me don’t smoke either – well some of them do, ...

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Birds on the bridges…

After a string of pleasant, sometimes cloudy but not rainy, days, today started out with rain.  Not too auspicious for the Peregrines & Bridges program a friend and I  signed up for through Portland Audubon.  This is one of a series of programs they do as part of their ...

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Spring all around us…

It is Spring, with a capital “S,” and we all know what kinds of nonsense it leads to.  Love, often with a capital “L”,  springs up like the new blades of grass.  And often gets trampled underfoot in the same way. But my question today isn’t really about the trampling of ...

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Who cares about brackets?

Maybe brackets were made to be broken.  Or maybe I just should have known better – after all, I’ve never been in the habit of drawing up bracket forecasts.  For those who are oblivious to “March madness” or didn’t grow up in a basketball-obsessed state, what I’m talking about is ...

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