THE GRILLED CHEESE REPORT

Sunday is a good day to make a picture of Saturday, which was yesterday.

Today, everyone's gone to the park to bounce soccer balls off their knees and heads, the girls just as good at it as the boys, and drink Gatorade and cans of something called White Claw.

These should be the happiest days of our lives, knowing we are living in a time that will be written about later.

The great political divide is now between people who should apologize and people who should be apologized to, though our marketers, spokespeople for the system, like to say 'we're all in this together.'

The temptation is to keep thinking about matters to which we haven't yet given a great deal of thought, and then to up the ante by having too many thoughts, or by thinking the thoughts others are thinking,

Standing in line yesterday to gain admittance to the paradise that is Trader Joe's, I looked up and beheld The Salesforce Tower, its top floor glittering in the distance like a Mormon Temple.

Looking at famous paintings, as I have been in my free time, it looks to me that every time a famous painter makes a brushstroke he or she is trying to become beautiful or famous or powerful or immortal.

The foghorns this morning: on my deathbed, the very last sounds I'd like to see. Yesterday walks through the park: everyone over the age of 10 is walking with some awareness of their own death, most of them for the first time.

The bookshelf, once relegated to a humdrum life dedicated to a strictly utilitarian purpose, is enjoying a major upsurge in popularity and status.

We live at the most interesting time in our cinematic history. This is a masterpiece, a Bergman movie in which the actors are presumed dead before the credits roll.

Over the years, novelist Eric Goodman’s books have been described in many ways – readable, fascinating, raw, honest.

Now that men can have husbands I can relax and read a magazine, knowing our civil liberties are thriving. Eventually though, one of us will have to get up to do the dishes and take the dog for a walk.