For years I have bad-mouthed Jeff Bezos for his lack of philanthropy in spite of being one of the richest men on the planet. I…
What is the first song you can remember hearing? What were the circumstances? Was someone singing to you, or was it a recording? What song…
In a time when one’s feelings are bruised just reading the news it helps to remember that everything has a cycle. Good times, bad times,…
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s definition of insanity sums up how I’ve been dealing…
Most of us have had the experience of looking for something that we held in our hand a minute ago. Keys, glasses, pens, what have…
I’ve been a lifelong weakling. I swear I never had any natural strength. When I played sports I had to rely on strategy and quickness…
I spent New Year’s Eve alone and sick with a cold and it couldn’t have been a more pleasant evening. Other than the cold part….
As I write this, someone I know and care about is going through that particular rite of passage — that institutionalized hell we call Grade…
I stumbled upon a journal I had started and abandoned in November of 2021. It was fascinating to read what I had been so concerned…
The first book I ever read cover to cover by myself was The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton. I was about seven years…