http://www.krevil.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:02:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I didn't think it would happen so soon--the numbskulled, shivery epoch of possum-like slowness and mental sloth that typically befalls me from February to April. I thought I could man up and think my way out of a paper bag for a few more weeks, thus limiting the amount of ... http://www.krevil.com/2009/01/06/premature-hibernation/ Who knew? PNC Wealth Management has been publishing an annual Christmas Index for 24 years. Just for fun, bean counters tote up the cost of every item in the carol "The 12 Days of Christmas." The masterminds of the Christmas Index determine the prices of similar real-world items ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/12/09/the-christmas-index-andawww-hell-if-i-know/ I remember my grandfather once told me that finding a job during the Depression filled him with a sense of triumph. That job was making buttons in a factory--and he was the first in his family to finish college. Back when a bachelor's degree was more of a heavy-duty accomplishment ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/11/17/how-will-we-look-back-on-this/ Dear President-elect Obama, I'll admit it: you weren't my first choice, or my second one, either.  But I sure was happy to see you stride onto the stage at Grant Park two Tuesdays ago. And props to you for even wanting the job. You've inherited one big flipping mess.  Your shoulders are freighted ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/11/14/an-open-letter-to-president-elect-obama/ With the Independence Day just around the corner, it's time to turn to our spacious skies, slack-jawed and drooly, to celebrate America! Yay! I remember hopping from foot to foot at 8:50 every Fourth of July as a kid, waiting for the magical hour of 9:00 PM to approach. ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/07/01/blowin-stuff-up-for-liberty/ Apparently, the memo wound up crumpled at the bottom of Big Unit's Backpack: we've got a four-alarm genius epidemic fulminating here in Southeastern PA. Maybe the smarts are raging across your pre-teen landscape like a California wildfire, too. Thank God I learned about it before ski mask-wearing MENSA goons ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/05/23/genius-epidemic/ This from Little Unit, in our time of grief. We're getting used to the idea that the Younger Units have no more grandpas, and I have no more dad. Even though I'm a really, really old grownup, his absence still cuts to the quick, kwim? But two-year-olds are not renowned ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/05/14/i-hate-my-potty-and-i-hate-you/ No personal stuff, I told myself. Blogging that would be like reading diary entries through a bullhorn. Besides, who wants to hear about trips to the supermarket, etc? But one car trip I made last week has managed to suck all the oxygen out of my lungs: I had to drive ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/05/09/like-a-story-that-never-ends/ Aliza Shvartz: Did she or didn't she? (Only her hairdresser knows for sure!) Well, maybe not even that many people. This is stale news, but the questions it raises have been festering in my brain for awhile. Does Ms. Shvartz's ill-fated senior project at Yale constitute art? I've gotta hold my ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/04/28/a-day-late-and-a-dollar-short-art/ Maybe it's not so terrible after all. I just got back from a reunion (not college-sanctioned--the best kind evah!) with about eight of my close associates, or my posse, as the young people would call it these days. Met up at a bar, then progressed to the host's hotel room. ... http://www.krevil.com/2008/04/21/getting-older-who-me/