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Category Archives: BlogOff
Welcome to my island. Please pass through and chat a while; a #letsblogoff post
12 CommentsI’ve just been given an island. I can take whatever I want there, but once on the island, I can’t leave. Who and what would you bring? What are the rules? Hmmmmm. I really don’t want the island. As wonderful … Continue reading
Thanksgiving should be an international holiday
10 CommentsI have a lot of friends who are expatriates. They all go through this same cycle of Americanism. When they first move abroad, everything is so exciting, quaint and cultural. They embrace the differences between their new homeland and their … Continue reading
Sniffing around for the funny
5 CommentsA three-legged dog walks into a bar, hops up on a stool, slams his paw down and says, “Barkeep, give me a cold one.” The bartender slides a cool draft toward the mutt, notes his slack jaw and and asks, … Continue reading
Optimism is having faith in youth — a blogoff
17 CommentsI spent about ten solid minutes this afternoon just staring outside my office window yesterday afternoon. The wind had kicked up fiercely, the sky had gone gray and the yellow leaves were blowing off the roof, falling all around like … Continue reading
You are bringing a soccer ball to a football game. Why blogs don’t matter.
8 CommentsAre blogs as important as bloggers think they are? The question itself is a bit of a stretch, but I think the shortest answer to it is one of the most American of all answers — the sports metaphor. “Old … Continue reading
So like sheep, these media types
16 CommentsLifted from telegraph.co.uk BBC Do social sites like Facebook connect the world or isolate people? Undergraduate Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University claims to know the answer and has researched this question for a senior paper that was published in Cyberpsychology, … Continue reading
My slice of heaven
15 CommentsMy slice of heaven is a simple place. In the middle of a busy city, a single large room. The place would not separate work from home, night from day, One side would be a wall of windows from floor … Continue reading