Jan 9, 2013 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Starting another new year, perhaps it is fitting that we try to embrace a proper attitude. Maybe this offering sent to me by a friend will help in that department. Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to...
Dec 24, 2012 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We all have Christmas memories and may long for that Christmas of old… “back when it was celebrated for the right reason,” as church goers may implore. But Christmas, as we know it today, is a late-nineteenth-century creation: a blend of...
Dec 19, 2012 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A tradition, a friend of mine used to opine, is anything done more than once. He just may have something there. I like tradition, however, many otherwise traditional people turn their nose up at the word as though it was a bad thing. One tradition...
Dec 12, 2012 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I hung out with some elderly newspaper folks a few weekends back. I thought we were all elderly crusty curmudgeons until I realized I was about the oldest in the crowd. Which then allowed me to offer the youngsters some of my well seasoned life...
Dec 5, 2012 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener In high school I learned in Charles A. Bard’s math classes about a number of laws of physics: the law of equal and opposite reaction, the law of gravity, about inertia (those things that are in motion want to stay in motion and those things...
Nov 7, 2012 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The month of November is a fickle month. Early there is sunshine and some remaining brightly colored leaves which still adorn a soon-to-be barren landscape. But the Indian Summer couldn’t last all month long and when the winds and rains of...
