Babbling

Television sportscasting legend Bob Lobel is leaving WBZ-TV (Channel 4) as part of a workforce reduction announced earlier this week at the station.Veteran entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik and newsman Scott Wahle will be leaving, too, said Ro Dooley Webster, a station spokeswoman, in an interview early this morning. She declined to discuss specifics of their departures.She did, however, say that she doesn't expect any other high-profile talent to leave.The station, like other media outlets across the country, is facing increasing pressure to cut costs as it grapples with declining ad revenues and viewership. On Monday, the station announced plans to reduce its overall workforce of 220 by 10 percent.Lobel joined the station in 1979 as a weekend sports newscaster and moved to the weekni

Sunday Morning Musings.... I've spent a good portion of the last two mornings doing laundry. Yesterday I had almost all the laundry caught up with the last two loads in the washer and dryer. Last night my daughter mentioned to me around 6:00 that she worked this morning at 9:am. On my way upstairs to brush my teeth last night I stopped by her room and sure enough, her work pants were dirty,

If the carbon emission curve doesn't start falling by 2015 we are smoked. With this fact etching against the inside of my scull I find it excruciatingly frustrating to listen to colleagues at work who are babbling about the trips they have done or are planning to do.Yesterday a colleague, just back from vacation, told me that she had been to Greece. The hottest day they had had was 46 degrees. Having mentioned this I thought she would bring up climate change, but she never did. Instead she said that she was going to China this winter. Someone in her family was turning 60 so they would go on a group journey to celebrate. She also wanted to go to Japan next year to visit a Japanese friend who was getting married. I couldn't restrain myself anymore and I asked her if she didn't feel any guilt about flying so much. She said that she didn't and swiftly swept on to some other topic. After that exchange I sent her a link to a book review of Mark Lynas' 6 degrees.I am not very outspoken a

This coming Sunday is my baby's first birthday. How is this possible?Some parents might throw a fantastic party or buy exciting presents to celebrate. I am doing these things too, but all the hustle and bustle makes me feel even less connected to the event, not more. For me it takes quietness, and reflection. Time to remember and celebrate and let go of the year that has gone by, to let go of babyhood. I stare at pregnant women and newborn babies these days. Stare and tear up a little. Was it really a whole year ago? Then again, was I really pregnant? Was he really that tiny? If so, why don't I seem to remember it?The lack of memory is due, I think, to the lack of sleep and lack to time away to process. Anne Lamott says that her son carries in himself every age he's ever been. I have already found this to be true, and the opposite as well. The transition from helpless tiny babe to opinionated, independent one-year-old has been so seamless and gradual that looking back at pictures ju

Sorry for being a bit late with my post today. We kind of slept in… (that can happen when you don’t go to bed until …oh, like 5 in the morning! *giggles* …and I even missed the appointment with my Doctor today!!! That make me very very angry at myself. I even had a note attached to my computer and still missed it obviously. ##%¤&/&/&/. This visit was because that medicine I got for the Fibromyalgia, does not work. Even made me worse. My Doc. is very difficult to get an appointment with, I can’t even phone him until next Monday to book a new appointment. Still, I’m glad if I get one, because the other doctor I had was terrible, so I gladly wait for this new one…. So, this day went by very fast. Some heavy grocery shopping, then cooking dinner and now we have our Swedish cinnamon buns in the oven, smelling really good!!! Tomorrow we’re visiting my Mom in the elderly home, so that’s why the baking. She loves home made

Last year, A. Dave Lewis, who's a contributor to Broken Frontier and may be a comics writer in some capacity himself, wrote two columns in which he attacked Michael Medved and Michael Lackner's critique of Marvel's destruction of Captain America in 2003. Lewis wrote a pretty leftist rant, and what really surprises me was that anyone of his standing could still have cared by 2005, when here, the Marvel Knights series had already been stopped due to the flopping sales caused in part by the swing to anti-Americanism, and Cap had been restored to the regular MCU, though as Civil War now proves, it sadly wasn't that long before Marvel boomeranged back on the Chomskyism again. Meanwhile, let us dissect the first column Lewis wrote for starters: first, here's Lewis's response to the part where Medved and Lackner wrote that the Defense Dept. (Pentagon) must face international terrorism, “without the aid of a celebrated hero of past victories – comics figure Captain America.” Lewis

Since I was up early and all (see the post below this) I sat and sipped coffee and wrote a little story about Coffeehusbands solo trip to the grocery store last night. Just as I finished writing it I realized I changed my mind and didn't want to post about it anymore. Delete! Poof.So here I am, with lots of little things I could write about but instead I just feel like regular old 'coffee talk' - you know, when we have mindless chatter over our morning coffee before heading off to work.Work. Which reminds me... today "WOULD HAVE BEEN" my last day. You know, if I didn't have such a sense of responsibility and a midwestern work ethic. So today is my 'official' last day at work but I'll be there at least another week or two I think as I don't believe they have started interviewing for my position yet. And really, since we got the "please send us $4750.00 this week" notice from our mortgage company on Monday I have to admit that every hour I work means food on our table

Yes, I actually participated in Way Back Wednesday today... how could I not? I had that perfect photo of my brother nekkid as a jay bird! I actually had a perfect photo of me in mind to play but once again (as always) my photos are AT MY PARENTS HOUSE hours and hours away from here. I give you what I have... which isn't much.WORK BABBLE: So yesterday the CEO of company 1 called and apologized for having to cancel our interview on Monday. She was 'stuck' in Cancun due to the rotten weather here in the States. STUCK IN CANCUN. Ahhh to be so unlucky. We rescheduled for Thursday afternoon. This job is a part time (probably 3 days a week?) and a step backwards on the resume and a step (or two) down from what I currently do. It's basically a 'job' verses a 'career'. But... after the past 5 months of hell it was exactly what I was looking for after all the stress and frustration I had gone through in my current position.***** Now this could get confusing if you don't