July 20, 2008
Turns 70 today. Where I used to work, the organization’s President gave me the set of Hardy she had carried with her through boarding school in Switzerland. ” I learned all I know of sex from Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” For men of my generation – and I daresay quite a few women – we [...]
July 18, 2008
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented or fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of [...]
July 17, 2008
Art Linkletter is 96 today. I remember watching him on television – over 45 years ago? – and he was old then. Bits & Pieces has a clip from those early shows. I actually enjoyed more the interview he did for the Archive of American Television earlier this year. Does he have a deal with [...]
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I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. . . . I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'