February 2006


Have you ever had the misfortune to REALLY clean and tidy your house, only to have your company limit their presence to the living room area?  As the visitors leave, they look back and see a small face at the screen door, crying in a plaintive voice: “But wait, you haven’t used the bathroom!”

What a sad way to start a Monday, with a quote like this:


(reflections of a man jogging on the field track at a college)


“It was too early for anybody else to be out this morning except a faculty wife whose lumpy shape would never be transformed by anything but death…”