From the moment the alarm clock interrupts my inadequate night’s sleep to the moment I drift off in front of the TV while the frowny-faced anchorperson tries to scare me to death with actual news, I am at the mercy of the clock. My high-tech computer-based day planner assigns different colors to different appointments. It [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘time’
01/30/2008
Teenage Standard Time
This is actually very much an exaggeration of the way my children really are, but the truth isn’t half so funny and this is a humor column. -Ed
My children and I live in different time zones. They live in Teenage Standard Time and I live in the real world.
In the real world, deadlines [...]
11/30/2007
Keeping Time
(Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “going green” and because I’m whipped after a verrry long week of work and fundraising at church, I’ve decided to update an old essay from my newspaper days. Next time I’ll be back with something new.)
Blame it on the monks.
In primitive cultures, nobody had clocks. They didn’t have any [...]
03/31/2007
Time Is NOT On Our Side
All of the clocks in my life have turned against me. I’m sure of it. Some of them run fast, some run slow, and some are just plain weird. I’m pretty sure that they talk to each other at night — trading messages encoded in ticks, tocks and the occasional bong — finding new ways [...]
09/17/2006
Scheduling Difficulties
Life is full of rhythms and patterns. The earth rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. Bad old ideas are turned into bad new TV shows every Fall. Presidential candidates lie about each other every four years. Even my own home has a rhythm, but it’s changed over time.
Sixteen years ago – when my children [...]
