Cracked Window

I spent a long time on the print side of newspapers and a good number of years starting and nurturing their online offspring. These days I’m online much of each day and night but still have this thing for the printed page.

It began, like many things, with a childhood ritual: plodding barefoot to the end of our driveway in Maitland, Florida and fetching the morning paper. As a kid I also fell in love with magazines, especially Life, which opened the world to me in pictures.

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I’m busy contemplating how to use the extra one second bestowed upon us at the moment 2008 ends.

The addition of a so-called leap second last happened in 2005, not that anyone noticed. But reading about this latest adjustment, I imagine life shifting into slow motion at 23:59:59. What dramas or epiphanies will burst forth in that precious extra second? Will someone fall in love in 2008 instead of 2009. Will a baby be born in December rather than January? The list of possibilities is, well, endless.

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