OK, boomer. When I was a kid in the late 1950s, my grandfather used to tell me how various things had been so much better when he was my age. For reference, the years he was describing were when Roosevelt was president. Teddy Roosevelt. Or as the world’s oldest train conductor in the movie “Finders …
Happy people don’t hate. People who are satisfied or at least optimistic about their own lives spend very little time angry with other people. They devote very little effort trying to make other people unhappy, and they lose very little sleep thinking about what might have been. There were two terms popular when I was …
Only yesterday? How about yesterday plus 22 years? Have we really changed that much? I spent several weeks in England and France in the summer of 2001, much of the time in Oxford and Paris, with a couple of days in London. It was about two months before Osama bin Laden’s attack on America and …
Someone I don’t know, someone named Susan B. Davis, posted the following anecdote on Facebook: The professor enters the lecture hall. He looks around. “You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?” he asks a student. “My name is Sandra,” says a voice. The professor tells her, “Please leave my lecture …
There’s a old saying I always hated. “If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.” It may be at least somewhat accurate, but it’s unfortunate because dogs are among the most noble creatures in our world. Still … One similar thought that is appropriate here is that if you get involved with …
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One of the most overused, misused popular-culture quotes in my lifetime was the Andy Warhol quote about fame. As true as it is in our media-saturated world, as ridiculous as the quest for fame has turned out to be, Warhol’s quote about the future isn’t in the list of the top 10 most profound things …
Here’s a question for you. What was the happiest moment of your life? It may sound like an easy question, but I’m going to set some limits that will make it much tougher. First, it can’t be anything that actually happened to you — getting a job, falling in love, having sex for the first …
Oh well. I suppose my praise of Michael Reagan’s recent piece about the Republican debate really was just a case of blind squirrels and acorns, because his next ones was downright insidious. Pretending to be reasonable, the 78-year-old Reagan said if he was going to attack President Biden for what he says is cognitive decline, …
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After attending several hundred baseball games — majors and minors — in 20 years in Southern California, I have been to exactly two in nearly 13 years in Georgia. Time just passes so damn fast. Both games, the first in 2012 and the second in 2018, were the Washington Nationals coming to Georgia to play …
It was the winter of 1981 — February, I think — and I was suffering after a tough breakup. I was driving in Fairfax, Va., heading to a dance at the old Huddleston Library with two young ladies who were members of my college newspaper staff. Tara Hagenbrock and Ilissa Klein, as I recall. I …
