Urban Pigeon
Walking in traffic, eating garbage, crapping on monuments.
Latest Blog Posts
- Virtual College on Nov 23, 2009
When my son was in college a few years ago, it was like I was back in college, and it was just as dumb as it was the first time. Once he called for help with his English class. They had watched "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and L...
- Elegy for a Printer on Nov 20, 2009
I just returned from Colonial Heights where I donated my HP Laserjet 2100M to the Swift Creek Mill Playhouse office. A young man carried it out of my car, up the stairs and left it on a table in the hallway. I said a few final words to it, hoping it...
- This Old T-Shirt on Nov 15, 2009
My husband has never worn a suit to work. He has never had to interpret "office casual." His entire working life has been spent in uniforms, sometimes with his name embroidered in italics on a breast pocket patch.Not that there's anything wrong with...
- Baby, I'm Amazed on Nov 15, 2009
I missed a critical episode of a TV program, even though I have Tivo. I was bummed out for half a day, but then thought to check the Internet to see if it was online anywhere. It was.One day at work, I brought up a local news website and watched a br...
- Things Bosses Have Made Me Do on Oct 26, 2009
I once had a boss who wanted me to print out all the photos on his bosses' camera. I open the camera card and see an assortment of vacation and party photos, and then a group of the boss' boss sitting around the house wearing nothing but a T-shirt an...
- Rag Barrel Wear on Aug 2, 2009
One of the very few things I have in common with my late mother are my pajamas. When we moved from North Carolina to Thailand to further my father's career in government service, a move my mother was furiously opposed to, she became so apathetic, she...
- Large on Jul 31, 2009
This explains so much, and is what I've always suspected. Glad to see science confirms it.From Malcolm Gladwell's brilliant book, Blink:Most of us, in ways that we are not entirely aware of, automatically associate leadership ability with imposing ph...
