Fantasy and Perspective

Imagine what your life must look like from a distance. You spend a lot of time bizzy and bizzier only to flop down from exhaustion at the end of a week. The minor irritations caused by your family or boss or anyone don’t seem anywhere near as important when you try to explain them to someone who isn’t involved. The small joys you receive from the loves of your life aren’t as important to someone else.

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Net-Work’d

Today is mail day, and we have a special kind of event. Perhaps even a “special” event. This time we visit some old television shows, “The Rockford Files” meets “The Twilight Zone”.

I was watching an old “Rockford Files” DVD from netflix on Sunday, since season 4 only recently came out. In the middle of another wonderful story by Juanita Bartlett, the writer whose pacing and rhythm is matched only by her ability to get into her characters’ skin, I had a thought. It’s been months since I tried to track her down via the internet. Perhaps there is something new.

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