Grocery Gizmos

If you want to stand out in a crowd, take pictures in a grocery store.

You’ve seen them, perhaps? Those hand scanners introduced recently to grocery stores? I’ve read where people refuse to use them because they do not want … Read the rest

Commercial Woes

I’m not feelin’ so good. I’m feeling plavoxey. Or, is it crestory? It’s not the orange jelly beans, people, it’s Sunday Morning News programs. They are making me sick and, for once, it’s not the content.

It’s the commercials.

How … Read the rest

Bearing Witness

The poet, Paul Celan, was described by his biographer John Felstiner, as a poet who wrote brilliantly about destruction, the Holocaust in Celan’s case. He had used poetry, the biographer said, to create “a language for the unsayable.”

Dr. FelstinerRead the rest