When I think of my maternal grandparents, I think of Christmas.
He adds, "That's what I think of today, while writing this book".
When I think of Christmas I think of jolly family occasions, I think of sitting in front of the TV with mince pies and a shot of Baileys.
When I think of Christmas markets I imagine glasses of steaming mulled wine, colourful woolly hats and wooden toys.
When I think of 1964, I think of the great Bob Gibson coming of age, but I also think of John Callison's pale face, and his struggle to keep playing, as the image of those doomed Phillies.
I think of last year, and I never really had the feeling in the locker room that it was all business, all the time".
He is so yesterday, if I think of yesterday, if I think of an old calendar, I think of George Bush's face on it".
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK "I just go back to my nightmares; when I wake up in the middle of the night sweating, it's because I think of 2008, the three losses in 2008.
When in August 1991 Communist and KGB hardliners mounted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, hundreds of thousands of the Russian intelligentsia gathered in front of parliament to defend the achievements of perestroika .I think of August 1991 with great tenderness and nostalgia.
Walking around my neighborhood, grateful to be unscathed, I think of 2004, and I remember reports of those tourists who walked in ignorance on Thai beaches, remarking to each other about how very strange it was that the tide had receded so far and so quickly, how very odd it was to see fish flopping on the strand.
