Scenery - beautiful. Accommodations - comfortable. Entertainment - well, when one includes the Olympics, reading, going to a great play in Jackson, an outstanding symphony concert, and a whitewater rafting trip…Nothing to complain about there. The vacation at Jackson Hole was physically relaxing and beautiful. And I was depressed. Could I smile? Oh, yes. The pearly whites were visible simply with one command to the facial muscles surrounding the mouth. Physically I was fighting...

Scenery - beautiful. Accommodations - comfortable. Entertainment - well, when one includes the Olympics, reading, going to a great play in Jackson, an outstanding symphony concert, and a whitewater rafting trip…Nothing to complain about there. The vacation at Jackson Hole was physically relaxing and beautiful. And I was depressed. Could I smile? Oh, yes. The pearly whites were visible simply with one command to the facial muscles surrounding the mouth. Physically I was fighting...

I was shopping for a tuner/metronome today. ( Wound up buying one that I liked, too.) While I was there I bumped into a friend from school. Not a close friend, but an acquaintance. I'd say I knew her better that she knew me because I graded papers last year for a professor whose class she took. She has nice, legible handwriting and earned one of the better grades in the class to boot. The store was busy. The school year has begun and 6th graders around the world are taking band for ...

Life is fraught less for the thoughtless - painless for the brainless. Sure. Right. Experience is the best teacher, but its lessons are preferably learned by observing somone else's experience. Days are filled with advice received from the well intentioned, lessons are learned by others around, and then there are Things That Happen To Me. First is hearing of somone else's experience (secondhand experience), second, the experiences of those around me, and lastly, personal headlong...

INTRO: Not having erasers or ink splotches on the journal page is useful. Nor do I have to keep my eyes open when I'm at work, or so I think. Whether that is possible will remain to be seen. That, or the paw of my cat on the keyboard will be my excuse for any spelling errors.