I Love Monday

Today is a good day to love BASEBALL even though there is no major league game being played anywhere across the fruited plains today: it’s the All-Star break. What’s so great about baseball? I like that it’s not about violence, which isn’t the case with every sport. The pinnacle of achievement in one sport is to beat your opponent unconscious. …

I Love Monday

This might sound crazy to some people, but I love crickets. To be more accurate I should say their chirping. I always sleep near a partially open window whether it’s ten below or ninety degrees outside, and I find it so restful to listen to “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” as Mozart might have put it. (Actually, he did put it.) Outside …

I Love Monday

I’ll tell you something I truly love: clouds. Their variety in shape and color is virtually infinite. They are beautiful. They give us shade. In cold weather, a cloudy night helps keep us warm. Added to all that and more is their most vital function: rain. If you were given the assignment to provide irrigation for, let’s say every square …

The final I Hate Monday

For someone who writes a weekly post called I Hate Monday – and for the record, I have nothing at all against Mondays – it’s rather ironic that I hate hate. This is no sudden or recent realization; I’ve been this way for some time. I simply appropriated a common phrase (“I hate Monday”) as the label under which I …

I LOVE MONDAY!

That’s right. Love, not hate. So if you came here looking for the weekly I Hate Monday post, you’ll have to wait. It will be back next Monday. In the meantime, epic news! If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I have a bit of personal news: the arrival this morning at University Hospital of my latest grandchild. Not that …