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SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Subject to change — welcome to the next incarnation of Head Butler - The image above is by Miles Hyman, a consistently excellent artist who lives in Paris. Decades ago, he created the Head Butler logo. ---- Friends --- On March 1, Butler made a pivot

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Subjects to Change, Cheap Shots from the Cheap Seats, and more - TODAY’S SONG Lotta water under the bridge, lotta other stuff too Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: The problem is men - CAPTION: Nancy Pelosi, daughter of Big Tommy D’Alessandro, Jr., a Maryland Congressman and Mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959, at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural ball. She was 20. Yesterday

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: The week ahead. And looking back: Do you remember when Costco gave free samples? - I live in the epicenter of the pandemic. My Lifeboat People and I are fine (so far). I have been self-isolating for decades, so the isolation is bearable (so far).

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Thich Nhat Hahn on suffering: Rest your hand on his/her back - As a novelist, I’m a journalist. I read every relevant book about my subject, make documents with each book’s best stories and ideas, create a timeline, make a briefing book.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Tools for the long haul - PROVERBS 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” In the summer, you can drive down Fifth Avenue from the 90s to the 70s and not

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Two series you can actually stand to watch - I’ve turned the TV on so rarely in the last five years that the Young Adult has to do it for me. I’m often asked, “Didn’t you love X [some universally

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: We’re wearing masks… but the masks are coming off. - The caption on that photo (above): Pope Francis about to start extraordinary prayer in empty St. Peter’s Square for those suffering from the virus, their families and medical workers. That’s Rome.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: What if Trump gave a Grand Reopening party — and nobody came? - CAPTION:Thousands of vehicles lined up before dawn Thursday to seek aid from the San Antonio Food Bank. The agency fed about 10,000 households --- the largest single-day distribution in

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: When he says it’s not about the money… it’s about the money - I try not to turn the beginning of these pandemic Butlers into a Facebook diary, but I have to say that yesterday was the best in a while. Good call

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Your money or your life? Or: Do you feel lucky? - CAPTION: Joshua Bickel, a photojournalist for the Columbus Dispatch, covered a protest outside Ohio governor Mike DeWine’s daily press briefing. A hundred protesters had gathered. They pressed up against the

Swiss Army Knives - Swiss Army Knife with 2 GB Memory A friend wrote to say she'd found the right gift for every man in her family --- and it was small,

T-3 Professional Salon Hair Dryer - In boarding school, my morning began with a shower, followed by a 100-yard walk from my dorm to the school building --- often in sub-zero New England

TaoTronics Space Heater - Baby, it’s cold inside. That’s because my apartment is a block from the East River, and my street can be a wind tunnel. It’s also because my living room walls

Tea Forté - There are people living in tents in refugee camps and sick people crowding town halls to tell their representatives they will die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, and

Ten Videos: Because Looking May Trump Reading - If a picture is worth l,000 words, what are videos worth? Once I learned how to embed them in my pieces…..a lot.   A video is not just sherbet between courses, a palate

Thanksgiving Weekend Butler: Thank YOU! What Steve Jobs knew (and Elon Musk doesn’t). A getaway movie. Getaway music. A mind-teasing poem. Recipe: a bird after turkey. And more. - THANKSGIVING: THE ATTITUDE IS GRATITUDE A young man entered Club Q, in Colorado Springs, wearing a military-style jacket and carrying a long, AR-15-style rifle and a handgun, and in just a

Thanksgiving weekend: What do you say after you say ‘I’m grateful?’ - WHAT DO YOU SAY AFTER YOU SAY "I'M GRATEFUL?" YOU SAY IT AGAIN. I am grateful for my life. And yours. Such a cliché, but I’m thinking of a news story

Thanksgiving: Reasons to be cheerful - Very hard to balance the balance sheet this holiday. A tyrant thwarted, hunger at record numbers. Vaccine coming, hospitals full and loved ones missing from our tables. And I know

The 2011 Head Butler Holiday Gift Guide - This year’s Head Butler holiday gift guide has several innovations.  1) There is a sermon, but I’m publishing it another day. [It's here.]   2) The gift list is shorter. In the manner