It's Not Really My Own Little World Anymore
John Leonard
- Location
- Shoreline, Washington, US
- Birthday
- August 12
- Title
- I think
- Bio
- I suppose that I should give some sort of Bio - I'm a superannuated Boston transplant to the Seattle area who came out when the bottom fell out of the Telecom industry a few years back. Engineering just ain't what it used to be and it's unlikely it ever will be again. I'll get over it.
I've lived here for five years and doubt that I'll ever get used to the west coast. That may not be a bad thing.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My First Post
August 13, 2011 04:58PM - Walter Cronkite
July 17, 2009 11:48PM - Just a Nice Place
June 30, 2009 11:35PM - Why It's Wrong
May 25, 2009 12:18PM - Can You See The Real Me? Can
You? Can You?
May 17, 2009 11:35PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Ah yes, Rick Perry -
Michele Bachmann with a
Y-chromosome and
a wrinkled
face. Or…”
August 19, 2011 09:26PM - “Gee and there was a
piece on insect eating in this
week's New
Yorker - it was
in…”
August 15, 2011 06:38PM - “Hi Guys, Boris and
Natasha (his littermate, who
also lives
with us) will be 5
yea…”
August 14, 2011 10:34PM - “And I'm pretty sure
that little girls to feel that
in
order to be really
thought…”
August 13, 2011 11:27PM - “I'm torn,
honestly.
First of
all Catherine, while I
understand you feelings,
I'm
n…”
August 13, 2011 11:21PM
John Leonard's Links
Back in 2003, Savana Redding had a very bad day at school, you can read about it in today's NY Times . She was a 13 year-old eighth grader at the time, and it seems that one of her friends, having been caught with a couple of tabs of prescription-strength… Read full post »
"And here’s to good old Boston
The land of the bean and the cod
Where Lowells talk only to Cabots
And Cabots talk only to God."
-Who Knows
While commenting on Designanator's absolutely beauteous Nantucket photomontage, I mentioned that I would kill for some fried… Read full post »
We're having our first days of real summer here in Sunny Seattle, which always makes me look back to good summers in my past. There was the summer of '75, when I was working at a resort outside Yellowstone and first met my wife Karen. There was the summer… Read full post »
We've been yakking alot about TV recently, so now for somethng completely different.
My wife and I were part of a throng at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, a lovely old venue, Thursday night for a taping of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". I had always thought it was a… Read full post »
I was reading Arlene Green’s great little piece “On
Being Bird-Girl” (no Arlene, your nose is not too big) and
read one in of her replies, a great line:
We are still such lizard brained little monkeys, aren't
we?… Read full post »
Well, the IRS announced last week that those of us who have our tax refunds directly deposited in our accounts can expect our “stimulus package” payments shortly, while those of us who do it the old fashioned way can expect to wait a tad longer, but the check will… Read full post »
I was writing a comment to Karen Novak’s excellent blog on her health “Hello and Fit the First” and I’ll echo J.D. Black’s comment – Karen you are one of the cool kids. Julie Delio’s comment really hit a nerve. She pointed out how even with insurance, serio/… Read full post »
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