A great bit of human drama unfolded in the White House last week and it was a simple and stunning moment that proved the humanity of our current president and the unfettered charm and inquisitiveness of an eager mind. Barack Obama allowed a young boy to touch his hair.
In May of 2009, the life of my wife and I changed with the early premiere of the show Glee on Fox. We were both intrigued for different reasons. Elizabeth liked the idea of a show about people in a singing group. I was more interested in yet another attempt to capture the genuine experience — I was happy to see that, unlike the original series of Beverly Hills, 90210, the teenagers on Glee are mostly actual teenagers. I also thought back to my time at Peddie and how I did not know much of the Glee club other than when they performed for the school.
I’m not one for mocking and cruelly kidding around with people. Sarcasm has been misunderstood and misinterpreted too many times by well-intentioned people who then land in large vats of trouble dealing with the aftereffects of a failed sense of humor. When we think of valuable entertainment, the Golden Years of Hollywood are often a common touchstone: 1939. The MGM Musicals. The world was glorious and ripe beyond our homes and into our dreams and we could not be stopped as a nation after risking ruin, but ultimately winning, World War II.
Before really getting into this review I would like to state that it took awhile for my wife and I to even agree on the VTech Learning Sit to Stand Walker as the tool we would use to help our son Chaim Yosef learn how to walk. In the latter stages of Elizabeth’s pregnancy we discussed what kinds of toys and equipment we would get for him. I was and to some extent of the opinion that it would be best to expose him to as few electronically driven toys and tools as possible — I wanted to get him a crank driven wind-up rocker, for example, but soon found out that it is nearly impossible to buy one new.
