riding off into the mindset

The annual list is ready. Beloit College Annual Mindset List – Class of 2011 This is particularly useful to those of us in college towns, to give us something to chuckle about as we dodge cell-phone toting teenagers driving three-ton killing machines to Starbucks. A couple of my faves: What Berlin wall? Wal-Mart has always […]

Such a phony

(yes, I’m still out of town.  I wrote this like a month ago and set it to post so things wouldn’t be toooo quiet here) My lovely cellular provider has allowed me a “free upgrade phone”, which means that for only $50 (to activate the damn thing) I can pick a new phone. Right now […]

Incommunicado

I lost my cell phone. Someplace. I know I had it on Friday, when we left the beach. It’s been really quiet, I’m not sure I want it back.