Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Resolution


 This post will also be found in Tehachapi's The Loop Newspaper.  
 
It's that time of year again. Time for New Year's Resolutions. Popular resolutions include: losing weight, saving money and managing stress. But I'm making slow progress on the first two and the last one doesn't apply to me too often. Only when one of Tehachapi Community Theatre's shows takes over my life. And that's generally short term and voluntary.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Familiarity


 This post will also be found in Tehachapi's The Loop Newspaper.

Sometimes I don't quite know what comes over me. After all these years, and it has been plenty, I got it into my head to read the book The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. The first part of the story was printed in 1881 in an Italian magazine.