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Opinion January 2, 2009  RSS feed
Thirty-something speaks
Can't count on a reunion to revitalize
      Last Saturday I went to my 20th high school reunion. Technically, it should have been my 21st high school reunion, because I graduated in '88, but I certainly didn't put forth any effort to plan the thing…so who am I to criticize?
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The deadly game of Stare Down
      It's late afternoon just off Times Square in New York. Tony has spent the afternoon exchanging Christmas presents and buying electronic toys at heavily markeddown prices. Now tired, he's ready to head for home. Heading for 42nd Street at Times Square, Tony steps off the curb despite the fact there's a "Do not walk" sign flashing.
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
Some dreams should not come true
      I had a nightmare last night that jolted me awake in a cold sweat. I dreamed I was back in high school; a gigantic, unfamiliar one. According to experts, we address our fears in dreams; this one would confuse Freud. I was trying to find my second period class before the bell rang. The place was larger than AIG's bailout check.
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David Stanton deserved much better
Letter to the editor
      Thanks to Kevin Fisher for chastising Raycom and WIS- TV for the rude and impolitic way they treated a class act like David Stanton. I am just one of David's former colleagues who thinks he deserved to be treated with at least a smattering of the professionalism he practiced every day.
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