Waiting for the other shoe

          Just like any other morning, I turned on National Public Radio and stood staring out the kitchen window while waiting for the kettle to boil. Five seconds later, I was scraping my jaw out of the sink.

All of Life is a Teachable Moment

Personal Space

I wish I had better powers of concentration. I'm fascinated by those people (probably mostly under the age of thirty) who read with the evening news droning from the television or music blasting from their headphones.

People are Strange

I began yesterday with a water aerobics class and as my day progressed, my fellow humans provided me with several opportunities for reflection.

Everyday Truths

When I ran a few errands yesterday, I encountered some of life's truths:

On my first errand, although there were several legitimate spots available, I watched as a woman created her own parking space at the end of a row and only ten feet from the front of the store. 

This is a person who probably feels more entitled to life’s perks than the rest of us.

Impaction

  

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This week's topic is Wisdom,
something we could all use more of. 



“Billy – come on – we’ve got to get to the doctor’s; I don’t care if Steve Jobs did ask you for that new app of yours.”

Surrounded by monitors, keyboards and assorted electronics, Billy muttered to himself, “Tim Cook, Ma, Tim Cook – Steve Jobs is dead and I will be too if they don’t get this by tomorrow.”

Twenty minutes later, he was in the big padded chair with a mouthful of gauze and a masked man approaching him, a gleaming instrument in his gloved hand.

“We’ll have those wisdom teeth out in no time, Billy.”

That afternoon Billy sat and sipped ginger ale carefully, swished it over the empty spaces in the back of his mouth and stared at the now-unfamiliar figures on the monitor before him.