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8039. Ulgine Barrows - 1/18/2006 6:07:05 AM I still read to my son every night. We are currently on "Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane", which is a gripping story for an almost 11-yr-old. Er, and me, too. Surely a movie will follow.
So, tonight we were quibbling about the pillows AGAIN, which is part of the drill as we settle down to read. You would just have to be there, it's not a bad bicker.
Tonight, I told son in a royal voice, "I'm thoroughly ensconced in the pillows and can't possibly move, unless you spell ensconce correctly."
Little pecker did! I gave him a high-five.
And moved, among much giggling. 8040. wabbit - 1/30/2006 11:23:51 PM  Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig," has died of lymphoma at the age of 55.
8041. judithathome - 1/30/2006 11:39:25 PM Bummer. 8042. wabbit - 2/3/2006 4:14:35 PM WoW, we await images and a report on your smashing success in Siena! 8043. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:19:12 PM I thought your show opened in Siena in March? 8044. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:30:47 PM Oh ah and if you want to send a poster for the kids...
Moulin Chorel
42140 Marcenod
is the address. 8045. judithathome - 2/4/2006 12:02:47 AM I'm shocked this didn't happen in Kansas!
No Culture For YOU!
Some parents in this prairie town are angry with an elementary school music teacher for showing pupils a video about the opera "Faust," whose title character sells his soul to the devil in exchange for being young again.
"Any adult with common sense would not think that video was appropriate for a young person to see. I'm not sure it's appropriate for a high school student," Robby Warner said after two of her children saw the video.
Another parent, Casey Goodwin, said, "I think it glorifies Satan in some way."
Tresa Waggoner showed approximately 250 first-, second- and third-graders at Bennett Elementary portions of a 33-year-old series titled "Who's Afraid of Opera" a few weeks ago. 8046. wonkers2 - 2/4/2006 12:28:44 AM Ignorance unlimited in Colorado. 8047. arkymalarky - 2/4/2006 1:51:37 AM Uh-oh. I just got through teaching Goethe's Faust in AP English. 8048. Ms. No - 2/4/2006 2:06:51 AM If the parents had any culture they'd realize that it's a morality tale they could get on board with since Faust is clearly not to be emulated and all deals with devil are bad ones.
Sheesh. Bunch of loons. 8049. Macnas - 2/6/2006 11:44:08 AM Oh for fucks sake. 8050. Macnas - 2/6/2006 11:46:41 AM "Go'in down to Southpark, gonna have myself a time" 8051. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/11/2006 12:08:11 AM I thought this guy's haircut belonged in this thread because of its title.
 8052. alistairConnor - 2/11/2006 1:19:15 PM Way cool! He's got to be French!
though he would probably get a hard time from the cops...
(hair would seem to be modelled on the képi worn by French gendarmes)
 8053. wonkers2 - 2/12/2006 8:50:31 PM The Bare Essentials of Dance 8054. wonkers2 - 2/12/2006 9:07:51 PM Sample quote: "'...unrestrained anatomy makes some of the more vigorous movements,' as he put it, 'a little bit comedic.'....'Americans are so licentous and so puritanical simultaneously.....Nudity is like calling something 'Free Beer.' I always threaten to make people do stuff naked, and I'm all for it, but to me, it's usually more trouble than it's worth. If something is swinging around, that's all anybody looks at.'" 8055. jexster - 2/14/2006 6:14:50 PM From the Been There, Done That Dept
Damn I shoulda written a book!
YES, MARRIAGE MATTERS
BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED, CANDID...A tremendous comfort to those who mourn." Flora Biddle, Chairman Emerita, Whitney Museum of American Art
INSPIRING READING...Tells the story of grief as a way of showing how deeply satisfying the bond between two gay men can be." George Haggerty
8056. Ulgine Barrows - 3/3/2006 1:27:06 PM What book club is THAT from? 8057. PelleNilsson - 3/9/2006 5:51:39 PM Each year IHT faithfully reprints his wonderful account of Thanksgiving in mangled French-English, but otherwise Art Buchwald has slipped from view. Here he is again, probably for the last time.
Dear Reader,
I am writing this article from a hospice. But being in a hospice didn't work out exactly the way I wanted it to. By all rights I should have finished my time here five or six weeks ago.
This is what happened: I was riding the elevator at the acute care facility next door when I saw a sign that said there was also a hospice in the building. I arranged a tour and everything looked very good to me.
I talked to my doctor, Mike Newman, and he said, "It's your choice. You're the only one who can decide what you want to do." Which was, I thought, a good answer. That's when I decided to discontinue dialysis.
One of the reasons for the decision was that I lost a leg at Georgetown Hospital. I miss my leg, but when they told me I would also have to take dialysis for the rest of my life, I decided - too much.
Several things happened. My decision coincided with an appearance on Diane Rehm's radio talk show. She has over a million listeners. I talked with her about my decision not to take dialysis.
The response was very much in my favor. I had more than 150 letters, and most of them said I did the right thing. This, of course, made me feel good.
It is one thing to be in a hospice; it's another to get on the air and tell everybody about it.
When I got to the hospice, I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.
Now this is what it's like for someone who is in the hospice: I sit in a beautiful living room where I can have anything I want and I can even send out to McDonald's for milkshakes and hamburgers. Most people who are not in hospice have to watch their diets. They can't believe I can eat anything I want.
I have a constant flow of visitors. Many of them have famous names, so much so that my family is impressed with who shows up. (I would not be getting the same attention if I were on dialysis.)
I hold court in the big living room. We sit here for hours talking about the past, and since it's my show, we talk about anything I want. It's a wonderful place to be, and if for some reason somebody forgets to come see me, there's always television and movies on DVD.
I keep checking with the nurses and doctors about when I'm supposed to pull out. No one has an answer. One doctor says, "It's up to you." And I say, "That's a typical doctor's answer."
I receive plates and baskets of delicious food - home-cooked meals from my son and daughter-in-law, treats from the delicatessen and frozen yogurt from Häagen-Dazs.
Everybody wants to please me. Food seems to be very important, not only to my guests, but also to me. If they bring food, they get even better treatment from me. One day I told a friend I wanted a corned beef sandwich. The next day I got 10 corned beef sandwiches.
Also, I have received dozens of flower arrangements, something I would never get if I were on dialysis.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people - not many - are starting to wonder why I'm still around. In fact, a few are sending me get-well cards. These are the hard ones to answer.
So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. How long they allow me to stay here is another problem. I don't know where I'd go now, or if people would still want to see me if I wasn't in a hospice.
But in case you're wondering, I'm having a swell time - the best time of my life 8058. Macnas - 3/9/2006 5:59:25 PM Sounds a whole lot better than the hospices here.
The only thing different from an ordinary hospital I noticed in a hospice, was that the patients were allowed to smoke in a small room just off the ward.
As it was a cancer ward, where people came to die, it didn't make any difference whether they wanted to smoke or not I guess.
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