You’ve Got To Be Kidding
Essays in this category were originally posted to Nancy's first blog, "Pieces of My Mind". They've been moved here for preservation as the original website at NancyBabcockWrites.com has been taken offline.
Do you ever get so busy that you can't remember what you did last week, or even yesterday? I've just discovered a great way to catch up with and keep tabs on what I've been up to--I Google myself. I did that yesterday and boy, was I surprised at what I found! It was...
Today I was reminded of how men allegedly hate excess verbiage, and how I way too often slip into too many words to "clearly" make a point, or tell a story, or whatever. I think I'm doing this in the interest of clarity, but men supposedly want clarity in two words or...
My friend Tim has gotten the message, had his switch flipped, and is off and running with a junk-free, sugar-free, artificial sweetener-free, meat-free, dairy-free diet. Oh my. Tim's eating green? WOW!! This is a guy who, when he visited me for a week nine months ago,...
In this time of economic "challenges," to understate reality by a lot, you never know who is going to be asking you what about your money--or so I found out today. I called my bank today to transfer some money from a CD into my checking account--not a large amount,...
Malcolm Gladwell is really smart, extremely insightful, and he's used his considerable talents to figure out the why of the otherwise seemingly inexplicable. Have you read his books--Blink, The Tipping Point, and now his newest, Outliars? Each one explains the...
When I first read an article from the New York Times about turning yourself into a vending machine as a form of protection from street thugs, I thought it had to be a joke. I was wrong. A Japanese designer, Aya Tsukioka, has come up with the latest in...
California went "hands-free" last week. Do you feel safer? If you do, think again...and read on. (Same for if--especially if--you don't.) "Hands-free" refers to cell phone users not using one of their hands to hold the cell phone to one of their ears, specifically...
Maureen Dowd had a column in the Sunday New York Times a few weeks ago, with this same title, minus the question mark. The question mark is, therefore, mine--not to question Maureen, but more the idea that 'an ideal husband' can actually exist. Maureen quotes a 79...
Weddings used to be about two people getting married, for better or worse--although the "worse" was not particularly emphasized on the wedding day. A recent topic on one of the morning news shows was "How to Plan a Destination Wedding"--which had to do with pretty...