The Y generation

Got this in an email today:
The reason people born after 1983 are called generation Y

Top 10 Thinking traps

Took a little break there from blogging as I discovered old haunts and, more preciously, bumped into old friends and connected with family in London.
Here’s an article recommended to me by Stumble Upon. Not sure why the recommendation server decided I needed a tonk in the noggin’ and polish up my thinking hat, but [...]

Housing bust in Manhattan?

Just last week I wrote why I would not buy real estate in Manhattan right now.
Here’s an article by Helen Chernikoff at Reuters that provides another perspective on the housing situation in Manhattan. To be precise, she uses the dreaded b-word.
Is the housing bust about to take Manhattan?

Poem of the week June 15.

Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Laureate regarded as one the great poets of the century, became a buzzword in the US mainstream (perhaps even globally) after the runaway success of the Italian cinema Il Postino. His poem, called “Poetry”, that was used at the end of the movie “And it was at that age… poetry [...]

Poem of the week June 8 2009

Tumble into Sufi poetry and, sooner or later, you will stumble into Hafiz. It happened to me.
The verses of Rumi and Hafiz, Bulle Shah and Amir Khusrau fill my heart. They rhyme with the devotional poetry of Surdas, Mirabai, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Emerson and Tagore. Sufi poetry greets its fellow theosophies at the intersection [...]

Real estate – Not a time to buy

I’m told quite often by friends that this is the time to buy real estate in New York. I disagree. The way I see it, next year is a better time to buy.
Why? (and I’m not being poetic)
Robert Shiller, of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, writes a compelling piece on why home prices have [...]

Poem of the week – June 1

After an ancient poem in last week’s post, it’s time for some poems by a more modern poet. James Fenton is a British poet, born in 1949, studied at Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His use of meter and rhyme is quite unique.
The first poem is simple, stark, and [...]