The Little Words Mean the Most

Where we live and...

...how we display our cards.

Think of this as your living room...

Four times a year, the CT Forum assembles a wowzer, one-of-a-kind panel to discuss some HOT!!! topic. Tonight: Simone and I attended "The World of Sports," featuring controversial syndicated radio talk show host, Colin Cowherd; recently retired Patriot defensive veteran and stroke recovery patient, Tedy Bruschi [far right in photo], wearing 3 Super Bowl rings; Rebecca Lobo, television analyst, author, captain of the legendary UConn women's basketball 1995 national championship team, youngest member of the Gold Medal 1996 U.S. Woman's Olympic Basketball Team, now mother of 4; and William Rhoden [far left], award-winning sports columnist from the New York Times and witness to history. In this photo, area high school kids grill the experts.

My famous accidental career

Mostly I just wanted to find a way to make poetry and a love of pretty, hand-printed books pay so I wouldn't starve.

As a writer for hire, I admit that I deeply underestimated the role of craft in success. And overestimated talent. Talent turned out to be, mostly, applied craft. Plus a few drinks, if conditions warranted.

When I stumbled into the nonprofit world, I was home. This is what I'd wanted since I was a kid: a place where people -- amazing people -- tried to fix things, without caring if they could make a buck.

Let's get it done. Let's make things better. Screw the cynics.

I love Apple. My technological life orbits Apple products & has faithfully since the 1984 "cute" Macintosh; I owned one. I'm listening happily to iTunes right now. But.... Apple does good only accidentally. Not intentionally. Not like NGOs.

They do good with determination. I like being near them.

The money tornados (formerly, masters of the universe) on Wall Street won't matter 20 minutes after their last dollar is spent, either now ... or in the relatively near future, that special period late in life called, "You can't take it with you."

Heal someone. Save someone.

Don't be a waste of potentially worthwhile human capability. Money does the job in charity.

SF: Looks like this 2 th in&out biz traveler

L-r: hotel, overview, airport.

I'm sending photos to Pinterest now like these

Shoot 100 photos

Discard 101

What I need to make me happy?

Carbonation. With ice.

Why crop

Click image to explode. Oh, dear! This was within.

My day job

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Intellectual Ring Toss

Copyright. Trademark. Unilateral ownership. Smothering parents.

You push these stakes into your lawn. And each partygoer has a colored ring to toss, over the stakes. Whoever completes the course first, in alphabetical order, wins. So even simpletons can play.

Each stake has a head in silhouette, with a name on it. And each head is the size of that celebrity intellectual's IQ. Bigger IQ, bigger head. Smaller IQ, smaller head. My IQ, just the stake.

The trick is to get your ring over the bigger heads. They're far harder than the less-than-incredible IQs.

So let's say Newt Gingrich IS the smartest person on earth, like a certain Be My Valentine has said. Then his head's the biggest. Then comes Einstein. Curie. Hawking. So on.

Also comes in a 1% Edition: gold-plated; when you sink a toss it says, "I may be smart. But I was never as rich as you." Sold without prescription.