By Wink High school is over. Your child has now grown wings and is headed off to college. This is a sad, necessary step in life. Letting your metaphorical butterfly go free is never easy. It is even less easy because said butterfly will need stuff. Lots of stuff. Don’t forget to send all of [...]
By Wink Time for a trip. We don’t have ‘fly’ money, but we do have ‘drive’ money, so our trips are almost always driving trips. Since our vacations are usually two weeks long, we have time to get just about anywhere in the continental United States. This time our major destination is Vancouver which, it [...]
By Wink May 21 came and went. The world didn’t end. If anyone was ‘raptured’ up to heaven, I didn’t notice. (See the May 19 Winkest Link, “Our Final Farewell”) That I did not get ‘raptured’ did not shock me. I try to be good, but I don’t expect to be on the ‘A’ train [...]
By Wink On May 21, a nearby symphony orchestra is performing “Live and Let Die: The Music of Paul McCartney”. Live and Let Die? It can’t be any more appropriate. May 21, 2011 is the end of the earth. The orchestra could have chosen music from ‘Titanic,’ but maybe that would have been too subtle. [...]
By Wink An exciting new story popped up in my local newspaper the other day. The Chicago Cubs may have thrown the World Series. Not LAST year’s World Series. They weren’t in that one. Nor the one before that. Or the one before that. Or the one before that. Okay, I couldn’t remember when the [...]
I generally try to think of myself as someone who follows the news. The only thing I don’t typically watch is television news, unless a major event is happening. I read the papers, follow the websites, etc. But something must have slipped through the cracks. Apparently, Rep. Michele Bachmann made a misstatement about early American [...]
By Wink AOL has just completed its purchase of the online news hub, the Huffington Post. The price? $315 million. Our sincerest congratulations to Arianna Huffington for her newfound, additional wealth. The press release says the combined site will attract about 117 million U.S. visitors each month, and an estimated 253 million worldwide. We here [...]
By Wink True life conversation….. Colleague #1: “Right now, there is snow on the ground in 49 states. Amazing” Me: “I heard that and, more amazingly, the only state WITHOUT snow on the ground is Alaska!” *** Colleague #2: “Really? Wow, that IS interesting!” And to think you were worried about our education system. ———————- [...]
By Wink Hakeem has a razor. Hakeem doesn’t shave. The question for you (and for Hakeem) is…. Is the razor sharp, or is it not? Discuss…
By Wink Several W-L editors play a game called “Sims 3.” I don’t. One of the character roles being played is a movie producer, or some-such. This producer is required, not to make a movie, but to come up with the idea and/or title of a movie. I hereby present a few ideas of these [...]
