Diane Kendig: Just finished reading (listening to) Julian Barnes' wonderful novel, The Sense of an Ending, whose narrator, back in the 1970s, keeps singing to himself, a la the Rolling Stones, "Ti-i-ime is on my side, yes it is."

Me: Why thank you. I like that. I usually think of the austere figure of time from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale but am so glad another cheerier note can be included.