It was April 19, 1975, and I was at a wedding reception. A friend had put together what we now call a mix tape, and the song playing at that moment was Jackson Browne’s “Ready or Not.” The song is about a young man learning that his live-in girlfriend is pregnant, and it was a …
If there was one thing I never figured would happen to me, it’s that I would wind up in assisted living. For one thing, it’s expensive. The cost here is significantly more than my pretax annual income in my career as a poorly paid journalist. For another, I didn’t really have a choice as to …
“Quiet! Quiet, piggy!” On Air Force One recently, Bloomberg News reporter Catherine Lucey asked President Trump about the release of Epstein files that might involve Trump. The President of the United States snapped at her: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.” It would be easy to just say well, that’s our Trump. There has certainly never been another …
Oops. After five years of posting regularly — more than 1,200 pieces — I hit the wall in late August. I stopped posting for a while and before I knew it, nearly three months had passed. There have been at least 15 different times that I had a subject in mind, told myself I would …
My daughter Pauline is at the age where she is right in the middle of things, raising her children and also looking out for her elderly parents. Of the two, her mother and I probably are the tougher job. Nicole and I are both 75, and she is already in a memory care unit at …
In the end, it’s about running the race to the end Read More »
Some years back, I had a friend who had the same dream as millions of other American boys. He wanted to be the next Mickey Mantle, and even though he never played for his high school team, he was apparently impressive enough in summer baseball that the Baltimore Orioles offered him a contract to play …
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It isn’t often that I find myself even partially agreeing with Donald Trump on anything. I say partially because Trump goes way too far, but his attacks on the Fourteenth Amendment might have some reasonableness in one part of it. Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the …
What’s the most important secondary characteristic a person can have? If you figure that primary characteristics would include honor, honesty, compassion and a lack of self-centeredness among other things, I think I would put a sense of humor high up on the secondary list. More than half a century ago, I had two male friends …
Sixteen years ago … 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 is just a little town in the mountains, but the view is truly …
OK, it’s time for a surprise. Perhaps a shock. I’m going to say something nice about Donald Trump. Sure it’s only sort of nice and the purpose is to set up something I considerfar worse, but hey. Take it where you can get it. I do not believe Trump’s repost of some idiot’s screed on …
