It’s late in the afternoon and I’ve yet to write my mini-essay. As I decide what to focus on, I’m struck with how many incidents, big and small, satisfying and sad, occurred on this Presidents’ Day.

For some strange reason,

 … finish reading Ebb and Flow

I am spending most of today sitting in a windowless classroom listening to a monotonous speaker update me on the changes in my profession that have occurred since I sat here last year. On top of that, the profession I

 … finish reading Con Ed

When I go on vacation, I mentally check out from the daily barrage of newspapers, magazines, radio programs, and television tell-alls. In fact, the world could come to an end while I’m basking in the sun somewhere, and I would

 … finish reading Vacation Benefit

To date, where we live has had three times the normal amount of precipitation for the first two weeks of January. Precipitation is a weather person’s fancy word for rain and snow. That, coupled with unusually high temperatures followed by

 … finish reading Water