Mona Simpson is a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. This is a reprint published in the New York Times – October 30, 2011 I grew up as an only child, with a single...
Read MoreI’m downstairs eating my breakfast. My wife was upstairs finishing getting ready. We’ll both be ready to head to our offices soon for a normal day of work. Turns out – everything about that September 11, 2001 day was extremely abnormal. I see and hear a shocked Matt Lauer on The Today Show utter the words with that deer in the...
Read MorePrejudiced, hatred, biased, narrow-mindedness, racist, judgmental, opinionated! I either heard those words or they crossed my mind as I watched a movie last night that moved me. The movie – “Paper Clips” has been on my radar for several years and certainly was on my watch list but as is often the case, I hadn’t gotten around to...
Read MoreI find myself saddened by the news of the past 24 hours. I’m sure many feel as I do. For a 32 year old male idiot to purchase 6 tons of fertilizer 6 months ago, put together a car bomb similar to the McVeigh bomb years ago in Oklahoma City and blow up a government building in Norway killing at last count 7 people is bad enough. But then to leave...
Read MoreMy wife and I began watching “The Voice” on NBC early on. She was tired of American Idol and I stayed with this season until Pia Toscano was voted off. I then decided that I had had enough of it also. I think we thought the Idol format is worn out and even though the judge change was a slight improvement, it wasn’t enough for us. So...
Read More“If you don’t like where you are, change it! You’re not a tree.” – Jim...
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