Lessons in Dark Etiquette

More reflections on Proverbs

This time from Chapter 20, verse 5: A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out. I had looked up some commentary on today’s reading, mostly for 20:16 which left me a bit confused. The commentary [...]

Brief Reflections on Proverbs 18

At the suggestion of CD I listen to a lot I’ve been working to read one chapter of Proverbs a day corresponding to the day of the month (there are 31…on the last of the month I’ll read through 31). Today is my first time through Proverbs chapter 18 and one passage jumped out at me [...]

From the “Looks are the least of it” file

I recently saw Reds. Helen Mirren plays one of the female leads. According to Wikipedia she’s 65. She’s still got it. In fact, she’s got it as much or more than she did the first time I saw her in Excalibur way back in 1981. She has it at 65 more than most 20 something [...]

Things Not To Put In Your Online Dating Profile

Okay, first off two assumptions: These posts are aimed at women. These posts are aimed at women who want to have a traditional dating role: be approached by men where you select which ones to respond to Today’s no-no is to list that you are Quirkyalone. Before the flame wars start please note I’m not saying don’t [...]

Marry Him: Prologue

That's right, when she started the book she needed a 61 floor husband store before she'd go up one more. By the way, before you conclude she forced herself to come up with this over a week or so it took her three minutes to write. If you can write something in three minutes it's burned into you.

I May Start Dressing Better After Work Than At It

This post brought up something that has been crossing my mind since I got the new job. In answer to the question I said “Joey Bishop” because he’s the only one not wearing a coat and tie. That this stands out for me should surprise no one who has known me more than a few [...]

An Answer to an Annual Question

Every year for Valentines Day there is an article lamenting how men no longer measure up. I missed this year’s big entry because it came out after Valentine’s Day. Well, this morning the Drudge Report provided an answer: Monica still loves Bill. But 15 years on, Bill Clinton’s former intern Monica Lewinsky has not got married [...]

Working on my Groundhog Day Resolutions

Part of my “personal holiday calendar” the big date for February is Groundhog Day complete with resolutions. I’ll put them out for the world to see on Wednesday.

May I Present…

From Emily Post’s Eitquette THE WORD “present” is preferable on formal occasions to the word “introduce.” On informal occasions neither word is expressed, though understood, as will be shown below. The correct formal introduction is: “Mrs. Jones, may I present Mr. Smith?” or, [...]

On Writing

I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written-in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like the solution to a mathematical problem. – William Zinsser in Writing to Learn