There’s a moment in the 1987 movie “Broadcast News” that has always resonated with me. Holly Hunter’s producer character tells her boss that he is making a mistake and that he should do things her way. His response is blunt. Some years back, I was having an argument with an intelligent friend of mine and …
I need to start this post by saying I am absolutely not kidding. If Maine Democrats really want a nominee to replace Graham Platner, one who can defeat Sen. Susan Collins, in November, I have the answer for them. Stephen King. Yes, he has never run for office before. Yes, he will be 79 years …
From 2009, the last time I was in France. We’re going back for a week in October. It is hard for me to believe that just two days ago, on a lovely Friday in the south of France, I stood on one side of the Lot River and took this picture of this village. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie …
“Beheadings (of whites) has gotten way too common in this country.” It must be scary as hell to be a Trumpanzee. When Donald Trump’s botched remodeling of the reflecting pool caused the water to be covered with algae, Dear Leader blamed people who hate him for sabotaging his efforts to beautify America. A former Olympic …
There are very few issues on which I agree at all with Donald Trump. He has demonized the issue of birthright citizenship to the point of exacerbating racism in America, hardly surprising when you recognize that his entire political career from the time he came down the elevator at Trump Tower in 2015 has been …
Someone much wiser than I once told me if you’re lucky, you never stop learning. In fact, if you’re really lucky and you learn that something you believe isn’t true, you are intelligent enough and flexible enough to change your mind. This is one reason fanatics and zealots can be such problems. When Bill Nye …
“Big boys don’t cry.” Those are the first four words of my newest novel, “Twice in Love With Amy,” which should be available on Amazon before the end of the year. “That’s the first advice I ever remember getting. I think I was 4 years old and sitting in a barber’s chair in Crestline, Ohio, …
During the five years I worked as a metro columnist for a suburban Los Angeles newspaper, I cultivated an image as someone who really loved the L.A. Country Fair at the Fairplex in Pomona. It ran for several weeks in September each year and I was out there several times a week to write about …
Wouldn’t it be nice to go to the Fair once more? Read More »
Fathers Day, huh? The day we honor the dads among us has always been kind of a secondary holiday behind Mothers Day. I think comedian Jim Gaffigan explained it best when he said women go through quite a lot actually to become mothers, while all he had to do to become a father was have …
A completely different world? In my previous post, I addressed the statement made by someone obviously under the age of 25 saying that we lived in a completely different world in the 1960s. I showed that in some ways, the differences cited were questions of degree. But there are ways — both good and bad …
