In a recent film, Helen Hunt plays a waitress who is annoyed with a customer, a man who cuts her down, is sarcastic, and is generally unkind. At one point she says to him, ‘I don’t want to be around you anymore. You make me not like me.’ My...
In a recent film, Helen Hunt plays a waitress who is annoyed with a customer, a man who cuts her down, is sarcastic, and is generally unkind. At one point she says to him, ‘I don’t want to be around you anymore. You make me not like me.’ My...
Milk was cheap that day, so I put three one-liter cartons in my cart—instead of my usual two. When I arrived at the checkout the cashier informed me that because the milk was cheap there was a restriction on how many customers could buy. She took one away from...
As the year 2000 arrived, TV commentators were summarizing many of the outstanding news stories of 1999. Among these reports, one particularly caught my attention. This report was entitled, The Most Beautiful and Successful Women of the Year. The commentator listed the chosen women: several movie stars, some of...
