Three recent moments:
109.
"You hate oatmeal, but you like oatmeal-flavored Clif bars."
"And oatmeal cookies. Hey, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
"Oh, please."
"And oatmeal happens to be one such foolish consistency. It's so mushy
110.
"Only 28 days until World Cup!"
"How time flies. Seems like only yesterday it was 29."
111.
My new favorite sign of spring: The reappearance of the tai chi school that holds sessions in my alley. Sometimes they exercise using swords. Making my way through their ranks, bags of groceries in each of my hands, I feel like Neo from "The Matrix," operating in bullet time.