When I was 12 years old, I was kind of obsessed with numbers. I recently found a small spiral notebook in my mother’s house. It was a partial chronicle of our trip from our home in southwestern Ohio to New York City in the summer of 1962. I’m pretty sure it was at least the …
I don’t remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock on my television screen, announcing that the show about to begin would be in color. I don’t remember the first time I saw a show on a color television set. I’m pretty sure it was sometime around 1961 and it was at my grandparents’ …
I’m sort of appalled at how reluctant I have become to try new things. For the last few years, I have been doing crossword puzzles and other word games in an effort to give myself a fighting chance to stave off dementia as I age. I got pretty good at the New York Times and …
“Only the good die young …” Despite the wonderful Billy Joel song from the late 1970s, this probably isn’t completely true. There are certainly bad people who die young, and there are good folks who live full, long lives. But of course we remember the good ones who predecease us. And we miss them. Always. …
So Sarah Palin has decided to run for Congresss. Who’s the happiest woman in America? Got to be Tina Fey, who will be in all sorts of demand again for her pitch-perfect Palin portrayal;. And who’s the unhappiest? It’s probably either Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene, who will no longer be doing battle for …
Have you ever enjoyed a book so much that you read it over and over again, maybe as much as a dozen times in a month? Enjoyed it so much you have practically committed it to memory? Enjoyed it so much you wonder where the author come up with such a good idea for a …
I’m pretty sure I will never be signing up for Truth Social, Donald Trump’s answer to Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the social media universe for normal people. Pretty much the only reason I have spent 13-plus years on Facebook is so I can keep up with people I love and care about. I …
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I have written before about my favorite songs, and I said someday I would do a bottom 10 of my least favorite songs. That never really appealed to me, though, so I have come up with something of a twist — and shout — on the idea. How about the 10 worst songs that I …
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It says a lot about the cynicism I feel in my old age that when I first heard about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars Sunday night, I thought it was something the two men had staged as a publicity stunt. And while I’m still not 100 percent sure I’m wrong, I think …
What’s the most exotic vacation you ever took during your childhood? I would say I’ve got nothing, that my biggest vacations were to visit grandparents in Ohio or New York, but in 1967 — the last summer of my childhood — we went from our home in Virginia up to Montreal for Expo ’67. That’s …
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