Category Archives: Ideas

Thoughts, speculations, and occasional rants.

Q&A: “Where do you get your ideas?”

My four blogs have varying levels of activity. My business website will soon contain articles on several techie subjects, as soon as I finish updating the material from my old site. I also contribute to threads on waaay too many email … Continue reading

Posted in Ideas | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Q&A: “Where do you get your ideas?”

Note to self: Add pages

One of the things I’m enjoying about NaBloPoMo is the requirement to read the blogs of other participants. No, I don’t enjoy the subject matter in every post. I’m not into typical mommy stuff, and I don’t cook. And…I have … Continue reading

Posted in Ideas | Tagged | 3 Comments

I ♥ Puzzles…

…any kind of puzzle: jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, anagrams, logic problems, mystery plots, even technical troubleshooting. Want me to pay attention to you? Offer me a puzzle to solve, and I’ll gladly shelve routine work or household tasks and race to your rescue.

One of my first memories is… Continue reading

Posted in Ideas, Life | Comments Off on I ♥ Puzzles…

Drawn to Read

Ward Sutton, whose cartoons and illustrations I first encountered in the pages of The New Yorker, writes a monthly column for the Barnes & Noble Review. His December column was a series of postcards highlighting the most notable books of 2010 … Continue reading

Posted in Ideas, People | Comments Off on Drawn to Read

Did you learn something today?

On December 31, the last day of 2010, I read an interesting OpEd piece in the New York Times. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist I first encountered through his 1970 book on migraine, wrote a wonderful essay about the plasticity of … Continue reading

Posted in Ideas | Comments Off on Did you learn something today?