Good Grief!

Okay, so there are flaws in the shepherding career change idea. Apparently this occupation is not as pastoral as I had envisioned. Also, I don’t want to work outside in bad weather.
So now I am going to be a personal life coach:

Coaching is the world’s second-fastest growing business skill.
Coaching is a relatively new […]

Attention Philadelphia residents: have you seen The Big Bang? It’s hysterical, and it’s playing at the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio through April 10th. Some background:
Have you ever dreamed of getting involved in a big-time Broadway production? Join us in the elegant Park Avenue apartment of Dr. Sid and Sylvia Lipbalm as two wannabe producers, Jed […]

Today’s art’s pick questions the role of the artist in our society.
The symbolism—namely the palette and the sword—is straightforward and represents the subject’s uncertainty and turmoil. This figure, an artist himself, faces a difficult decision: should he use his skill to create beauty, or should he wield his talent like a sword, using […]

Unlike some Philadelphia curmudgeons, I welcome the arrival of spring with open arms (and fewer weblog entries).
Baseball season begins in a few weeks, as does the Philadelphia Film Festival. Friend Type E has promised to give me tennis lessons, and my rollerblades are ready to hit Kelly Drive. Saturday marked the first day of reading […]

Our suite in the soulless office park has a hallway that connects the front and back parts of the building. At one end of the hall sits a mysterious, 1985-ish computer terminal with orange letters on a black, eighty-character-by-twenty-four-line screen. The screen is always on, flashing cryptic messages and symbols.
So I was running through the […]

I’ve been in the Information Technology (IT) biz for almost ten years. During that time we got some exciting stuff like the Internet, Y2K hysteria, dot coms, and dot bombs. I’ve adjusted from the comforting world of programming in COBOL/IMS/CICS on a central mainframe to the mysterious world of n-gazillion-tier applications and Microsoft certifications that […]

Just last night, an astute friend was looking at some of my Montana pictures and noticed that this cow, found wandering around the Chief Mountain International Highway, has the marking of Pi.
Which is pretty strange. But then, it turns out that today, 3/14, is Pi Day (thanks for the reminder, Lunabomber).
Cow Pi on Pi […]

Just a few short weeks until Phillie Phanatic blogging commences! To get ready, I’m recycling my Philly Future post from yesterday (with a few minor changes).
Now that the Grapefruit League is in full swing, Phillies weblogs everywhere are coming out of hibernation. A new addition to the group is Phreakin’ Phils: another freaking Phillies […]

The Market Report is a weekly column written by Ken Klein of Klein’s Supermarket in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. He writes the column for the Art Museum Area News and kindly allows me to post it here. The report is a fascinating look at the forces that drive the quality and price of our […]

Visiting the Salvador Dali retrospective at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art made me realize that I don’t know much about this strange Spaniard.* I’m more of a Picasso woman, I guess, though thankfully my eyes and breasts are located in the normal places.
We all know about the melting clocks and the lobster phones, but did […]