'Can remember back to High School, being enrolled in College Prep -- not much unlike this Washington DC SEED program(NY Times).

That article talks up an inner-city prep school that gives them a "refuge from the drama of the neighborhood, the bridge between home and the bigger world."

Sounds a lot like myself. The visual of a bridge plays nicely here too.

Yep, 'got that Mediterranean lifestyle bumping against a few heads. Always another good reason to revisit it right here (CBC News).

This time's more good-then-gravy.

Scientists concluded in a study that eating loads of fruit, fish, lean meats, and veggies lowers the chances of getting all ill.

'Gotta up my game, 'cause the competition out there is very real, says this lady friend as she heads off to i kid you not...charm school

Etiquette trainers have reported a nice jump in business -- part of that bid for people to gain an advantage out there in the narrowing job market.

My take -- 'girlfriend, you never too old to learn something new. And some good manners right about now might be just what we all need -- especially if you are part of lucky group that still has a job.

All big smiles, 'til it hurts.

'Speaking on the recession blues -- depending on who you talking to...there's a killer on the loose.

On the one side of the white picket fence, for the first time in a minute, the birth rate has dropped among well-to-do baby boomers, all the experts are blaming it on the economy (NBC)--

makes sense, I'm guessing all those worries would deflate any steamy bedroom action -- 'no job, all those bills coming in, must mean no boners tonight. "Let's just cuddle instead." (big yawn)

'Remember that big let down as a young kid when it was just an ordinary man hiding behind a curtain operating that all-powerful Oz, in that Wizard of Oz flick.

"That just sucks," I'm most surely said.

Though most of my my writer wannabee friends would say pulling off a pseudonym - (ala a book secretly written by the fake name that once was possible 15 years back for the likes of Stephen King, when he wrote under Richard Bachman). Well that could never ever be pulled off now -- in this web age of tweets and leaks, and those sneaky stalker sites (like TMZ.com)...

or can it?

Trolling my own past for interesting moments, I start wondering just how interesting a life I've actually had. And then watching BBC's Beautiful People (the show that re imagines the childhood of style guru Simon Doonan growing up in suburban) -- I'm scratching my head to wonder why exactly should anyone care.

This article (NY Times) talked up that "generation that ignited Pottermania" -- now all grown up. Seeking to relive that childhood after glow earlier than most.

those readers now college grads -- entering the workplace. Seem to be embracing their Peter Pan (ness)

Summing this trend like this "it seems we are seeing the advent of Generation Y nostalgia."

“I associate ‘Harry Potter’ with my childhood,” said Becca Cadoff, 21, a senior at Northwestern. “I couldn’t wait for the books to come out. We went to midnight parties at our bookstore in New Jersey.”

No disrespect to all you Harry Potter fans out there, but I tend to think of Potter as disposable pop culture -- something that was cute but will soon be replaced by then next "Twilight." teen trash. It appears I'm very wrong in my thinking, according to market mavens.