Obama helps lift the spirits of even the grumpiest

Jan 26 2009 | More Columnists

To my horror, someone described my outlook on life with particular reference to this column as ‘grumpy’ the other week. Now - I like to think of myself as a positive, glass-half-full sort of person, able to look with a detached objectivity on the world around us, certainly, see the absurdity in our daily obsessions, a little cynical at times perhaps – but ‘grumpy’, surely not! However since then I have noticed that maybe I do rather dwell on what’s wrong and not what’s right, so here we go on upbeat observations for the week. Read