The Game of Life is one of the greatest and most flawed games of my childhood. While it was fun to play, including little cars with little people you got to add along the way, the "spinner" was infuriating. Maybe they've changed the design so you can roll a pair of dice, or just randomly decide how many spaces you want to move. But back in the ( Read more... )

"You look like someone in a movie." A quote from a conversation with a friend today ( Read more... )

I marked a number of pages in The Prince as points I was going to discuss in this posting ( Read more... )

I read somewhere that Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated" was a slaughtering of the English language that made for an amazing book. I thought it was written on the cover, or elsewhere in the reviews inside, but of course now I can't find it ( Read more... )

In my driving career, I haven't run over many animals. However, I have seen many beings who are just asking for their lives to be ended ( Read more... )

She says she has a problem with shopping, and has run up more than $10,000 in credit card debt. But this girl doesn't even have her own credit card ( Read more... )

There may be nothing better in this universe than finishing a run on a ridiculously hot day and then jumping in a pool. It's glorious ( Read more... )

You know the economy is tight when seemingly every article you read is about how to weather the tough times. They give you tips on bettering your gas mileage, lowering your electric bill and how you can save at the grocery store.

But we officially reached a tipping point. In this month's issue of Money magazine there is the following headline: " ( Read more... )

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped January 23, 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. Days later he was beheaded by his captors. Because of his death, I read a great book this week--a collection of his work from the Journal ( Read more... )

Gas is expensive. I think you’d have to be a 2-year-old living on an island by yourself with pieces of coconut stuck in your ears and a monkey holding its hand over your eyes to not know that ( Read more... )