I love listening to Harry Chapin. I saw him twice in concert, and I think at one time or another I’ve owned nearly all of his albums. He died at the age of 38, which cost the world another 30-40 years of great songs. Maybe even more if Chapin had been as prolific as his …
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It was late in the afternoon on a Thursday. For me, at least. When the phone rang, it was already early in the morning Friday, September 19th, 2008. I answered … and for a few seconds, all I could hear was a baby crying. “Hello?: Then a voice came on the line. “It’s your granddaughter,” …
Not everyone dreams big dreams. Heck, not everyone dreams sensible dreams.. When my friend Mick was in his late teens and people would ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he had a one-word answer. “Pregnant.” And this was seven years before Joan Rivers came out with her movie “Rabbit Test,” …
OK, boomer. When I was a kid in the late 1950s, my grandfather used to tell me how various things had been so much better when he was my age. For reference, the years he was describing were when Roosevelt was president. Teddy Roosevelt. Or as the world’s oldest train conductor in the movie “Finders …
Happy people don’t hate. People who are satisfied or at least optimistic about their own lives spend very little time angry with other people. They devote very little effort trying to make other people unhappy, and they lose very little sleep thinking about what might have been. There were two terms popular when I was …
Only yesterday? How about yesterday plus 22 years? Have we really changed that much? I spent several weeks in England and France in the summer of 2001, much of the time in Oxford and Paris, with a couple of days in London. It was about two months before Osama bin Laden’s attack on America and …
Someone I don’t know, someone named Susan B. Davis, posted the following anecdote on Facebook: The professor enters the lecture hall. He looks around. “You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?” he asks a student. “My name is Sandra,” says a voice. The professor tells her, “Please leave my lecture …
There’s a old saying I always hated. “If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.” It may be at least somewhat accurate, but it’s unfortunate because dogs are among the most noble creatures in our world. Still … One similar thought that is appropriate here is that if you get involved with …
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One of the most overused, misused popular-culture quotes in my lifetime was the Andy Warhol quote about fame. As true as it is in our media-saturated world, as ridiculous as the quest for fame has turned out to be, Warhol’s quote about the future isn’t in the list of the top 10 most profound things …
Here’s a question for you. What was the happiest moment of your life? It may sound like an easy question, but I’m going to set some limits that will make it much tougher. First, it can’t be anything that actually happened to you — getting a job, falling in love, having sex for the first …
