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      • We've never been really close, but when I needed someone...
        10/28/07
        I was so sick, with a virus. I had a bad fever. I had terrible aches and pains. I live alone and though I'm young I didn't feel that way. I tried to get to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription but felt dizzy en route. My neighbor saw me struggling back up the stairs and went to the pharm

      • Inspiring and reassuring this viewer still...
        10/22/07
        How did he do it? Coming on sixty years ago, a Frenchman wrote a story, rooted in 18th- an 19th-century farce but focused on the then threatening landscape of interwar European bourgeois society, and filmed it. The production features what is now called an ensemble cast and is mostly talky, with a o

      • I had never seen it at first light....
        10/21/07
        I was anxious. I was thinking about bills, how long it's been since I got away, work, work, work. I couldn't sleep. So just before 5 a.m. I got up from bed, left my family, and went walking in the city until first light. I had never seen it at first light. It was a new place. It was glorio

      • I feel life there after all....
        10/21/07
        When I get this tired, this depleted, I cannot imagine I can make new or better efforts. I do not believe I can overcome what has been lost -- love, people, dreams. But then I hear your voice on the phone; or I see you -- old love, old friend, family, you are all these -- and I feel a jolt; I feel l

      • He creates balance just by walking around....
        10/20/07
        Thank you to my best friend, the man I call Gandhi (a nickname). He sticks with me. We say people are bad, basically, but my friend is not, not even remotely. Some of us are indeed bad, all or partly, but my friend is so loyal and believes so hard in the best for me, for him, for you, that he create

      • To make the unwanted wanted....
        10/20/07
        Life is hard, and I'm grateful to those people out there, from writers to pundits, holy men to cartoon characters, who remind us that we can't personalize all that goes wrong for us. Stuff does, despite one's best efforts, despite all the wishing and hoping and praying, and will go wr

      • Our strong and lovely daughter...
        10/12/07

        I thank the People's Republic of China for granting me and my husband permission to adopt our absolutely wonderful, strong and lovely daughter, Faye, and for giving us the opportunity to be parents and a family together.

        Submitted by: Susan

      • Love is about endurance, the long view....
        10/11/07


        I would like to thank my wife for loving me through tough times, when she didn't want to, for forgiving me for forgetting love is about endurance, the long view.

        Submitted by: Jeff

      • That bird was so tiny....
        10/10/07
        There was this bird on the sidewalk. It was a city sidewalk. Night was coming on and it would have been easy to step on it -- moving as fast as we do here, in the city, I almost did. I stood by it for a time, making sure no one would. The bird was young; it had more fluff than feathers, and it would

      • She's got her eyes on life as she'd like to see and live it....
        10/09/07

        My friend Sam: I need to thank everything that is everything for her. She's been a shock of pleasure, joy, chaos, and comfort in my life. She's known some challenges, and though she wasn't blessed with the most loving mother, she's learned to love and live with such intensi

      • Going out to dinner after an awful movie...
        10/08/07

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        Thank you for going out to dinner with me after that awful movie.
        You are the loveliest thing around.

        Submitted by: Coyote

      • The loveliest thing around...
        10/07/07
        The guy at my local coffee place, a friend and a stranger both, was kind to me today. A song was playing about the most beautiful girl in the world. Maybe it was a Prince song; I could only hear the high notes over the din. He said, "That's your song; that's about you." Yes, he&#

      • New York, New York
        10/06/07

        I want to thank New York City -- it's a big, bad, beautiful place. It smells and it shines. It offers so much and it takes so much. It works you, but it lets you work it too -- it can be a dirty old miracle-maker and because its citizens know that, we all walk around full of expectancy, s