"So many tragedies in such a short time..." my gentle bride mused to me the other day, hardly looking up from the morning newspaper.
Usually, she tells me about happy things she reads about, someone's had a baby, someone else has gotten married.
But there were no such glad tidings this week. There was senseless death, a massive manhunt, and a hopeful promise lost in the clamour.
We attend to these somber issues in: One Step Forward, A Thousand Back
Jo Campbell remembers another call, another time, when others laid down their lives in the line of duty. She brings, this week, a poem she wrote then.. Our Fragile Human Shield.
While our national attention is focused on these matters, Al Cohen sounds a warning that there are Republican foxes in the Medicare henhouse, and that feathers are a'flyin. A watchful eye and outspoken voice will be required to avoid: Granny's Double-Whammy.
We chortle, we waffle, we even fill out forms, as party plans continue, and we guess who is coming to dinner: Stone Soup IV - Unexpected Guests.
Those in our number who hope to earn a living with the written word should take a look at: Writer's Guide To The Internet, where we learn that you don't need to actually KNOW anything to be an internet expert.
It's Apocalypse Now, and its creator, Corwyn shows that there is but one force that governs all things, from volcanic eruptions to media feeding frenzies. It's the end of the news as we know it.
We are dense as cement, and we know that, too. But we did not realize that we had been immortalized as a cartoon character. It is true. In the third installment of Cybertoons by Rob Rouse it is the holy grail. See the picture.
Jo Campbell dispells the notion that her globe-trotting has hardened her heart, and we see that deep down she's a misty-eyed seventh-grader in: Dreams In The Baroque.
What a person can do is often determined by what needs to be done, and Sixth-grader Ashley Rowbottom knows what that means. See: Teaching My Teachers.
Out in the heartland where the men are strong and the women are beautiful, Tara Calashain tells us how getting grandma out on the courts for a few hoops really let everybody's hair down in: Granny and the Basketball.
If it's news when the man bites the dog, then surely it's even more so when, as Scott Jones reports, the Fish Hooks Students.
Long ago, but not far away, life was simpler, and what we once awaited has now passed, or maybe never did come around. You can see this, if you walk about at dusk in places like Marion Station, it's a little like Time Travel from Howard Roberts.
Intercom/ICNet's place of business is a lot like an internet MASH unit at times, and while we were there the other day we watched a number of interesting operations. At least one of them peculiar enough to share with you, and includes the startling question: Can I Just Break This Part OFF ?
October 22, 1995 Charles Paparella The Shore Journal