Sarah E. Moffett

 
Recently I discovered the wonderful world of Suzan Charlton, who “is a professional cartoonist . . . rumored to practice law as a hobby for a major Washington D.C. law firm.” Sounds vaguely familiar . . . Anyway, she is witty, sarcastic, charming, and endearing in her depiction of legal idiosyncrasies. (Excuse the redundancy.) […]

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Well, Warm ‘Em Up With The Legwarmers This Saturday Night!

I’ve heard, from several confidential sources, that this band rocks like its 1985! So I decided it was time to actually leave my house (!) and check them out. As many of you know, the threshold for leaving my house is VERY high.
Let’s relive the good ol’ […]

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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?
~Ranier Marie Rilke (The Book of […]

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This is the second of Paulo Coelho’s works I’ve read, and at the moment I’m fighting the urge to drive to the bookstore and buy copies of all his other books. Previous to reading “Veronika Decides to Die,” I had read his most famous book, “The Alchemist,” and loved it. Naturally, I devoured this one […]

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View from the glass-encased balcony at Ghost Bar, on the 55th floor of the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.
I was in Las Vegas for a few days this week attending a conference aimed primarily at statisticians. The conference was informative enough but it was made abundantly clear, I’m sad to say, that not much […]

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I completely understand. You were sitting in your cubicle, staring at the off-green polymer weave of the crudely-placed dividing wall. ‘How long did it take to make those strands?’ you wondered, deeply concerned. ‘Did they use little people, with little hands? No, that can’t be right. But they should, it would create jobs for people […]

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