Quoth Og Mandino

“You must fail often to succeed only once.”

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Dog tired

Well, we’re back from the beach and we’re all sunburned and windburned and exhausted. The dog especially. The minute we got home she flopped down on her bed and hasn’t left it since. She does groan occasionally, and look over at me balefully. Poor pup. She was on fast-forward the whole weekend, swimming in [...]

Gone fishin’

Happy Friday the 13th, everybody. I’m outta here for the weekend—me and the family are taking a merry excursion to the seashore. See you all Monday, and don’t walk under any ladders or nothing.

Playing with WordPress

So I’m sitting upstairs in the manga section of Forbidden Planet, bored out of my mind while daughter shops. But lo, I have installed a WordPress client on my Blackberry, and now I can blog from my phone! Tra la! How delightful!

Posting on the fly

Jeez, today I went both hither and yon, “hither” being Hoboken, NJ and “yon” being Park Slope in Brooklyn. While I was in NJ on a business lunch, the rest of the fam went to the Brooklyn Museum, then we met up in Park Slope. My sister and daughter had deep-fried candy bars at [...]

NYC is awesome

So I’m sitting here in Union Square Park, taking advantage the free wifi that the Syfy channel is generously sponsoring. I’m laboring under the illusion that someone sitting in a park typing on a laptop is far less pretentious than someone sitting in a coffee shop typing on a laptop. And also, I don’t [...]