AUTO FIDELITY—While most of us still won’t give up owning a car, our loyalty to particular brands is evaporating, according to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal.
AUTO FIDELITY—While most of us still won’t give up owning a car, our loyalty to particular brands is evaporating, according to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal.
If you’ve been wondering, “What’s the next idiotic verb that will be added to our lexicon?”, wonder no more. It’s gamify (pronounced game-if-eye), which means to make something that isn’t a game in the slightest into an actual one.
Early last Autumn, as the world mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Europe’s only other queen—Margrethe of Denmark, now the continent’s longest serving monarch—quietly stripped. I hope that got your attention.
Question: Which of these two groups poses a greater threat to your safety on city streets?
On September 9, I sent the following email to Phillip Zimmerman, manager of Sacramento’s Front Street Animal Shelter:
Dear Mom and Dad,
Had you lived (a very long time), you’d be celebrating your 84th wedding anniversary this Sunday, November 13th.
My older brothers and I used to wonder what it would be like if our mom died before our dad. We agreed that unlike our resilient and social mom, (who would outlive him by about 30 years), our dad would be a little old man shuffling around a Sears store on a Saturday, wearing his tan London Fog windbreaker (with red plaid lining and cigarette holes), dark blue chinos and avocado green deck shoes.
I’ve always thought of freelance artists—writers, painters, composers, sculptors—as being more blue- than white-collar workers.
Starting in childhood, I’ve spent parts or all of many summers in resort towns.
My brother Stuart would have turned 76 tomorrow but instead, in his early 50s, lost a battle to Hepatitis C, which morphed into cirrhosis.