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Excuses! Excuses!
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, May 1, 2000
- Recently, it occurred to me that teachers no longer hear the excuse “My dog ate my homework.” What they hear now is, “I don’t know what happened, but after I added more RAM and inserted the graphics card, 1 turned to say something to James and my hard drive crashed and erased everything!” ...
Honey, It’s Not Personal!
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, April 1, 2000
- One of the interesting things in life is the number of facts we know to be true but forget each day. For instance, we know that accidents happen, that you never know what fate has in store for you. But still it comes as a shock when the man down the block falls off the roof while cleaning the gutte...
Resolutions Big Enough for a New Millennium
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, January 1, 2000
- I am happy and buying Champagne, and enjoying the fact that I am lucky enough to be alive for something so huge and extraordinary as the changing of the millennium. I actually think it makes us all more important in that it makes us historical figures: We are now, forever, the people of the earth wh...
Asking For A Sign
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, January 1, 1999
- I start my new year with a memory of autumn, and that horrible day.
I have just moved back into the city from the suburbs. I am in my apartment, which is not an apartment really, as apartments are where people live, and no one could live here. There are no bathrooms, no kitchen, and no air-condi...
The Treachery of Time
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, November 1, 1997
- I got word from a newspaper—the same way many Americans did—that Princess Diana had died. That morning, I got up and went out to my front lawn to pick up the thick hunk of Sunday papers, plastic-wrapped against the dew, and there was the picture and the headline, and I realized with a start that...
Raising a Gentlemen Son
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, October 1, 1997
- Lately, I have turned to the great and challenging task of teaching my son to be a gentleman—a very complicated thing in the modern world. I began with a definition of terms. A gentleman, I told my son, is among other things a gentle man. His eyes got a kind of desperate, darting look—he is 10, ...
After Anita Hill
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, September 1, 1997
- I have a scoop: u.s. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the longtime woman in his life, Ginni Thomas, were married recently in a small, private ceremony in a steak house in Tysons Comer, Virginia. Well, actually, they were married long before they got there and were, in fact, out to celebrat...
Kids are born conservative
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, August 1, 1997
- Like a lot of people with children, I find dinner to be a challenge. If my son ran our house, every single night of our lives we would have Kraft macaroni and cheese and a can of Coke for dinner. Then, after homework is finished and we watch TV, we would have powdered doughnuts and milk.
I try t...
Daydream Believer
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, July 1, 1997
- I am daydreaming about daydreaming. This is for me delightful, as I don’t have time to daydream anymore. I am a mother, a worker, a friend, a daughter, and a sister. People rely on me for, to narrow it down to the essentials, love and work. There is no time to sit back and allow my mind to float a...
The Realest Show on TV
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, June 1, 1997
- I read a newspaper article recently about the various TV sitcoms and dramas that have been criticized in the ongoing debate about eroding family values. I read it with the kind of half attention people bring to the subject, for it is a confused and confusing one that, for most of us, is decided by c...
Hooked on Horoscopes
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, May 1, 1997
- I have a vice that is actually more in the nature of an embarrassment, or maybe I should say a compulsion. When I mentioned it to some friends recently, my shame deepened because they didn’t see it as a vice, and thought I was just being prissy. The vice? Astrology. I read my horoscope every day. ...
Why Opposites Distract
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, March 1, 1997
- Here’s a story of the times: In New York City recently, a small group of idealists decided they wanted to help disadvantaged teenage girls get a start in the world. So they created and helped fund a new public high school just for girls.
Now, the first thing you think is, what a great idea. In...
Looking Forward
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, February 1, 1997
- At a school concert recently, a pensive mother turned to me. The gathering was festive and the gym was packed, for ours is the kind of school where entire families show up to cheer the kids on. She gazed at the crowd and said, “I wanted my father to be here, but he said the traffic was too much....
Looking Forward
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, October 1, 1996
- Since the country is facing a national election, which is, among other things, a coast-to-coast argument, I have been thinking about the peaceful image of a joining of hands, a private coming together-a wedding. Which is, of course, not an entirely private act, as it takes place in public with witne...
Looking Forward
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, April 1, 1996
- You’ve left the house, walked just a few steps, and notice something: Your shoulders aren’t hunched defensively against the cold. Your pores, which for months had been sealed tight, unclench and breathe. There’s no scarf half asphyxiating you, no mildly embarrassing hunk of wool on your head. ...
Looking Forward
Good Housekeeping: Looking Forward, March 1, 1996
- I am walking along a busy sidewalk and a man barrels by, close enough to jostle me and another woman. “Skyewz me,” he barks, not looking at us or anyone else.
I am on line at the grocery. The man in front of me, who is holding a baby, has forgotten something. So he turns, walks toward the sp...
