“As I stand on the precipice of death, my perspective is enormous.” Sometimes the weirdest quotes get stuck in my head. It’s like musical earworms, songs that you can’t get out of your head till they decide to leave on their own. One that was infesting my head for some time was “Lemon Tree,” by …
The important thing to remember is that the man never apologoizes for anything. When Donald Trump goes too far, as he seems to do more and more frequently, he never admits he made a mistake. There are usually three types of responses. The third one was the response Monday when even his hardcore MAGA types …
When I heard that the man — and I use the term loosely — currently running our country (into the ground) was threatening to obliterate Iranian civilization, I was reminded of a very good movie I saw about 25 years ago. Director Rod Lurie’s debut film “Deterrence” stars Kevin Pollak as a vice president who …
I don’t always dream about dead people. In my most recent post, I wrote about how two people I love who have passed away got me to reconsider ending an important friendship that had become a disappointment. But most of my dreams aren’t about the dead. In fact, I don’t even remember most of my …
With apologies to Haley Joel Osment, I see dead people … in my dreams. They’re not dead in the dream. They’re people I love who are no longer with us, but they live in my dream and it means a lot to me. Three of them are in this picture. My mother is standing with …
Taken from “Inside the Actors’ Studio”, this is the 10-question quiz that closes every interview on the show. Anyone who has watched the show finds him or herself answering these questions anyway, so here’s my response. I originally posted this on Facebook in 2009 when I was 57 years old, still living in Southern California …
When historians look back on the damage Donald Trump did to America and the world, much of the blame should go to a name few people even consider now. A man named Mark Burnett. Burnett is essentially the Godfather of Reality Television, starting with “Survivor” in the summer of 2000. “Survivor” was a true phenomenon …
Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: During the five years I was a full-time newspaper columnist in Southern California, there were occasionally times I felt like commenting on subjects that weren’t worth a whole column. So I threw several different subjects into one piece under the “short takes” heading. That’s how I …
A short post that seems more than a little bit strange to me: I have been having a great deal of trouble sleeping at night lately, mostly for stress reasons. The one time I consistently manage to get some sleep is after breakfast until about noon. Of course, that’s after not sleeping all from about …
There are all sorts of things I used to do, things I really enjoyed doing, that I never do anymore. Yes, that too, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. I used to love playing baseball. I never played on an organized team, but I was pretty good at bat and in the field. …
Never a great athlete, but I was a pretty good one Read More »
