Contrary to assumptions, “High Yoga” is not how you greet a legendary baseball catcher in Yankee Stadium or a smarter-than-average bear in Jellystone Park.
“High Yoga” Is Generating A Genuine Buzz
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THE GOLDMAN STATE
Whimsy
Does Your Life Have A Soundtrack? If Not, Why Not?
Does your life have a soundtrack—a musical score that seems to always be playing in the background?
Farewell, Summer of Sirens
I’m anticipating that tomorrow, September 22, the first day of fall, will also mark the end of what I’ve nicknamed the Season of Sirens.
Raising One’s Voice Over “Quiet Quitting”
“Quiet Quitting” continues to trend everywhere, from corporate offices to fast-food drive-throughs. It’s when people don’t physically leave their jobs but remain and do the bare minimum to hang onto them.
IRS Alert! Babysitters May Move Into A New Tax Bracket!
With the parents of youngsters continuing to head back to the workplace this fall—though this time, not to a dining-room credenza or card table by the water heater in the garage—teenage babysitters are reaping the benefits.
Full (Or Empty) Freeways Ramp Up (Or Down) Thanks To Covid
Julie Virga tells me she’s noticed that since COVID changed our way of life, she has the freeways all to herself during the week (everyone’s working at home) but almost certainly encounters gridlock there on the weekends, when everyone is stir-crazy and desperate to go somewhere, anywhere.
It’s National Beer Lovers Day!
Good luck trying to locate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh today. September 7 is National Beer Lovers Day and you’ll recall from the televised job interview for his current gig that he loves beer.
Blue Collar, White Collar, We’ll Take The Seventh Collar
I’ve always thought of freelance artists—writers, painters, composers, sculptors—as being more blue- than white-collar workers.
A Redaction Reduction Reaction
As we’ve been learning, no one in American life is above the law, though some are more orange, dumber and pudgier than the law.
Disease Names Can Cause Unease
Just as the Swine Flu didn’t make anyone’s facial features or behavior become porcine (Karl Rove may be the exception) and the Asiatic Flu didn’t leave all of us speaking in Mandarin, I rather doubt that Monkey Pox will make more of a chimp out of me than other maladies have (often in the form of can’t-lose/short-term investments and, of course, my successive reverse mortgages).
