When it comes to Christmas cake, I always follow the habit of the late composer Richard Wagner and make my own. A nicely wrapped slice of Christmas cake, as the noted composer well knew, is sure to please and now it’s become my own gift of choice. As the giver it means I have gained the efficiencies of standardization – I can…
I freely admit it surprised me how quickly I succumbed to a condition common among cat owners: softening of the brain. It must be a year ago I adopted my cat, because here I am reading an e-mail from the government listing the penalties for not renewing his license. Well not so much reading the e-mail, as reading it to…
When it comes to voting, most of us aren’t really too interested until after the election when it’s all had time to go to hell. “Well, you voted for it” we remember hearing, which is hardly encouraging. Or an elected official claims that some decision or other requires a vote of the people, the equivalent of Pontius Pilate washing his hands…