“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all …” I wish I could agree with the words of old Al Tennyson, that brilliant 19th century poet. Maybe he’s right in terms of loving a person, but that isn’t the only kind of love. There are other kinds and the …
If there is oe thing truly disgusting about the computer age — and there are actually numerous things — it’s how easy it has made trying to cheat people. When I opened the text message directory on my mobile phone today, I saw a message telling me my Amazon account had been locked because of …
“The good die first. And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.” I was 17 the first time I remember someone I would call family or friend died. There were others who had passed away before that, but they weren’t people I knew. Both of my paternal grandparents died before …
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The two classiest coaches I ever met coached against each other in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now they’re both gone. I’ve written before about Dean Smith of North Carolina, the only coach I ever knew who apologized to me. The died eight years ago at the age of 83, suffering from advanced dementia. Now Terry …
I don’t believe I have ever watched “Inside the Actors Studio,” although I suppose there is a chance I came across excerpts from it on YouTube. At any rate, every episode of the show ended with a 10-question quiz that was designed to provide insight into the person being interviewed. I took the quiz in …
Scott Adams will be 66 years old this June. He is reportedly worth around $50 million, nearly all of which came from his popular comic strip “Dilbert.” Do you think it’s possible he just got tired of working and that’s why he sabotaged himself with racist comments that have led many of the papers that …
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas. Lay down with Trump and DeSantis, Greene and Gaetz, and you get up screaming, kicking and drooling. Republicans , particularly the ones who call themselves moral, seem to get crazier every day, and the issue that seems to bring on the drooling faster than anything else is …
I’ve been divorced, and it’s not a pleasant experience. That said, there’s a huge difference between Michael and Leslie’s divorce in 1982 and the red state-blue state divorce Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to want America to undergo. The congresswoman that Jimmy Kimmel calls Klan Mom says there are irreconcilable differences between liberals and conservatives that …
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If you listen to Oldies stations, particularly ones playing songs from the 1960s, you’ll hear the same songs over and over again. It’s not as bad as it was back then, when AM stations had rigid playlists. I remember in the first part of 1965, for about a month when my morning alarm went off, …
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One of my guilty pleasures in the mid 1980s was a movie called “St. Elmo’s Fire,” a Brat Pack effort about seven friends fresh out of college trying to get started on their road to success. Andrew McCarthy plays a young journalist who dreams of someday writing about The Meaning of Life. He has a …
