- - - Ever checked email twice in the same minute? Stayed up till dawn to monitor every up- and down-tic in the Asian markets? Googled yourself — and read all the links — on a beautiful Sunday morning when you could be communing with nature? Thank God I had a friendly psychoanalyst and not […]
Archive for April, 2009
- - - “I’m the greatest man in the world.” Will Ferrell’s goofball character in the basketball spoof “Semi Pro,” upon incorrectly concluding that the team he owns will be joining the NBA According to myth, Narcissus became the first narcissist when he stared deeply into a reflecting pool and fell in love with the […]
- - - “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein I met a 92 year-old woman shortly before my father turned 90. When I told her my dad’s age, she sighed, “Aaaah, to be 89 again.” There’s little correlation between how old we feel and our […]