time2muse: Recent Comments

Comment on Finding Santa: It Depends on How You Look

2009-11-27T15:05:21Z

Cool,

Keep up the good work,

Thanks for writing, most people don't bother.

Comment on Thank You, Michael

2009-06-26T17:09:07Z

Beautifully said. Thank you Maria for you words of understanding and love. We were all blessed by his light. May it shine bright in our hearts forever.

Comment on There's nothing wrong with being weird; St. Louis should try it

2007-08-20T03:52:32Z

Dear Maria Rodgers O'Rourke, I really loved your article! I am a graduate from a local university (cum laude), and I am perfectly normal and have a respectable job. I kind of miss my college days, and all of the free-spiritedness that went along with them. I am a big non-conformist, though, in that I never followed the "herd" mentality of my peers, (ie-I was the guy sitting admist the yuppies in my math classes, with my long hair, earrings, and Pink Floyd T-shirt.) I was married, and I have a daughter in her 20's now. My claim to fame, I guess, is I absolutely love to wear nail polish, usually black on the fingers, and chrome on the toes. This is not a joke, by the way. It all started back in high school, I guess, when the girls thought I was cool because I let them try out different colors of nail polish on me, this was just when the rock and roll crowd really started doing nail polish. I am 100% straight, and wearing nail polish doesn't have a darn thing to do with "gayness" or anything like that. Heck, Dave Beckham, the multi-millionaire soccer player, he and his wife routinely go out and get matching mani/pedi-cures. My first wife was a bit squeamish about anything out of the ordinary, and my current love of my life absolutely adores it when we wear matching nail polish when going out on the town, and we get tons of compliments on it. So, in conclusion, I just wish to say I loved your article, and I really agree that more people should break out of the norm and have some fun with their life! Thank You! Tony, aka ozzy_isgod@yahoo.com

Comment on Multi-Tasking: Saving Time but Missing Life's Important Moments

2007-06-12T01:48:33Z

At work one day, I was on the phone attending a 'virtual meeting' with persons from around the country who were working from home or the office or on cell phones while waiting for a plane. I was receiving e-mail requests to stop what I was doing and start 'urgent' requests. Persons were sending me instant messages with questions that needed immediate responses and persons were walking up to my desk to ask questions. I've since read studies that human beings work best when they attend to one thing and then move on to the next thing. (This will not come as a revelation to those who practice mindfulness.) Now I turn off instant messaging except for brief periods during the day and only answer e-mails at certain times. I make a list first thing each morning of the one or two things that I would like to accomplish during the day and try to stick to it. I am now much more relaxed at work and accomplish more. I take heat from some of my co-workers and my bosses for not being instantly accessible, but simply tell them that I accomplish more by limiting my time, and that if they need me in an emergency, they can call my land phone and leave a message and I'll get back with them as soon as I can.

Comment on A New Season

2007-03-15T20:21:50Z

Timing is everything with any successful swing of the bat. Maria has hit a home run with this essay. She shares her thoughts and feelings with style and grace. Baseball has a strong emotional connection for me as well. I was one of those men who stayed in the theater long after Field of Dreams had ended. I could pretend that I was watching the credits but like all the other men who sat there, I couldn't have seen them through the tears that welled up when John asks Ray, "Want to catch?" I lost my Dad five years before and that line brought back those memories of playing catch with him in the backyard. Those feelings came back to me reading this essay. Thanks.

Comment on Midlife? Mamma Mia!

2007-01-26T14:03:28Z

As someone who was born just before all those baby boomers, I remember all this from my time in middle age. Having advanced to senior status, I still like to listen to "real" rock 'n roll (Bill Haley and the Comets) and recall teenage dances in basements or garages. The whole disco thing seems now and seemed then pretty foreign to me. Bill Haley never did any high kicks!