Most people dream big when they’re young. They dream of becoming movie stars, sports heroes or astronauts. They dream of being cowboys or pirates, and they grow into dreams of being doctors or lawyers or fabulously wealthy businessmen. Most of us never get a chance to pursue the biggest dreams. You can be a very …
I was rereading a book by Dave Barry today while my wife was getting her hair done. I had read “Lessons From Lucy” when it was first published in 2019. It was a sweetly poignant story about learning the simple joys of life from old dogs. Quite nice, but the real shocker was “One Last …
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I was driving home from the grocery store this morning when I noticed the American flag at our golf club was flying at half staff. That’s a pretty serious thing, and it usually means a great America — usually a former president — has died. Although as strange as our culture has become, it could …
Something very strange happened last night. At my advanced age, I don’t often have vivid, complex dreams anymore. I used to have quite a few, some pleasant and some that would qualify as nightmares. For about 15 years starting in my late teens, I had dreams in which I was being chased and before being …
This will be more of an update of yesterday’s post than a completely new one. Of course the Queen died yesterday. I doubt that it was much of a surprise to anyone after her physicians said they were concerned. Queen Elizabeth II was never the kind of person about whom bulletins were posted, and the …
“Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never, never, shall be slaves …” I always thought the second half of that line was one of the best sentiments ever in any of the de facto national anthems, and I take great pride that half of my ancestry in English and I can trace my British …
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I have only one magazine subscription that I really care about. I subscribe to two newspapers — the New York Times and the Washington Post, both online — and if I lived one county closer to Atlanta, I would get home delivery of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. For the entire 20-plus years I lived in California, …
“Trump extremists of the Right, the MAGA Republicans, are promoting semi-fascism.” When President Biden made this statement in a Philadelphia speech last week, Republicans and their useful idiots in the media had a classic hissy fit and said they were extremely offended by being called semi-fascists. This might shock you, but I agree with them …
Twelve thousand tons a day. When I put our trash out for pickup on Sunday nights, I figure there might be 40 or 50 pounds in the trash bags to be picked up on Monday mornings. I live in a community of about a thousand homes, so if my trash is average, that means the …
When I was a lot younger, I used to enjoy watching football games. I was a sportswriter for nearly 17 years, and at different times I covered high school, college and professional football. I covered one Super Bowl (one of the worst ones) and two Rose Bowls (both pretty good games). I worked the NFL …
