How many times have you heard this expression? “They don’t make them like that anymore.” It’s an overworked statement that certainly isn’t always true, but I can think of one thing that it fits perfectly. Cal Worthington’s dog Spot. No one ever had as many dogs that weren’t dogs as Cal Worthington, maybe the most …
I’m not sure there is a more welcome talent than being able to make people laugh. It’s not quite as wonderful an ability as it seems. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried once said it was a lie when women claim a sense of humor is the most attractive quality women look for in a man. If that …
I don’t see them much anymore, but when I was first on Facebook I kept coming across these goofy quizzes. Here’s one I liked, updated for 2023. 1. Are you named after anyone? Just my middle name, Paul, after my maternal grandfather. 2. When is the last time you cried? A few weeks ago. 3. …
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It was the Friday before Thanksgiving and we had just sat down for our last class of the day. I was in ninth grade and for me that was Earth Science. It was November 22nd, 1963. I didn’t even know President Kennedy was in Texas, so I was certainly shocked when the principal came on …
For about 10 years in eight or nine different apartments in six states, one particular painting was on one of my walls. It was a picture I had loved for a lot longer, ever since I heard Don McLean’s song “Vincent” and I visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The Starry Night” …
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As I get closer to the 18th green in my metaphorical life, I find myself thinking about what if anything comes next. The average American man lives to be 77 years old. Since I’m about three weeks from my 74th birthday, the golf metaphor would probably leave me out on the fairway getting ready to …
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I’m not sure there was ever a person I knew really well when I was young that I didn’t recgonize them when we met decades later. Until this week. I’m not talking about someone who was a brief acquaintance back in the day, or even someone I dated for a few months. I would guess …
“Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave. The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.” The quote above is one of the reasons Donald Trump is more desperate to avoid his election-tampering trial in Georgia than any of the other judicial reckonings …
I don’t know if it’s fair to call it the worst time of the year musically, but it really is something how many truly awful songs we hear dozens if not hundreds of times in the last six or seven weeks of the year. Yes, Christmas carols. Not so much the religious ones, although there …
Some of the things Donald Trump says are completely frightening, and I’m not talking about the horrible authoritarian remarks he has made. Yes, he has sounded more and more like Adolf Hitler. That’s not what matters here. On November 4th, just before heading up to New York to testify in his civil trial, Trump spoke …
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