Snowfall
Time's running out. 2009 has a day left, so it's time to take stock a bit. No, not to worry, this isn't one of those year in review pieces. The media doesn't even wait till the end of the year to do that anymore. How many times must we see Tiger's women, the White House party crashers, or hear the impassioned pleas of John and Kate? No, time for another kind of review. This one is simply to consider what happened in the last 12 months in a deeper way. Looking at the big picture, I'd say it's all about the technology. It's difficult to spot a real revolution when you are in the big middle of one. No doubt, newspapers, books, TV shows, records, CDs music...it's all changing. As we become closer to everyone through Facebook, Twitter and the like, we become farther away. It's all about the unreality of reality. But sometimes, we get a break. Like yesterday. On a day we expected to get a little rain and perhaps an hours worth of snowfla