by Charles Norman | Dec 1, 2019 | Song of the Day
Someday when we die we will lose all our possessions, our power, our family, everything… All of us have seeds of happiness inside us, and in difficult moments when we are sick or when we are dying, there should be a friend sitting with us to help us touch the...
by Charles Norman | Nov 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
She wants a laugh. She doesn’t laugh enough. Insufficient laughter, that’s grounds for divorce. And skiing – she wants to go skiing. She wants to ski down the mountain laughing like an idiot. — Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam When gaps appear between the...
by Charles Norman | Nov 26, 2019 | Song of the Day
This Betty Bliss, a plump maternal girl of some twenty-nine summers, was a soft thorn in Pnin’s aging flesh… Pnin had nothing against Miss Bliss. In trying to visualize a serene senility, he saw her with passable clarity bringing him his lap robe or...
by Charles Norman | Nov 24, 2019 | Song of the Day
Jim: If she can just hang on for a little while longer, this will be so huge for our family.Toby: Well, what’s a little while?Jim: What do you mean?Toby: I mean, what’s the end date? It must be really hard for her to sign on to be unhappy if she doesn’t know when it’s...
by Charles Norman | Nov 21, 2019 | Song of the Day
‘They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there — and all the time they’ll get there anyway…’ I told Dean that the thing that bound us all...
