I don’t want to make a big fuss about this but when somebody does something for me, such as the guy who opened the door for me at Trader Joe’s, and I said, “Thank you,” I wish he hadn’t said, ....
It’s sort of a shock to suddenly find delight in these dreadful times, the grim news of war and destruction, the apprehension of worse things to come thanks to our adolescent president, but New York has many available wonders and ....
Life is good, spring is on the way, and we must keep reminding ourselves of this since it isn’t reported in the newspapers, just as they don’t bother to point out that Canada is to the north and a brisk ....
I am fond of facts, even ones I don’t fully comprehend, such as the fact that curling stones are made from a heavy form of granite from magma expelled by an ancient volcano on an uninhabited island off the coast ....
I had a dramatic dream last week, a dream about a man in a white suit twisting my damaged left arm, the one I’m still carrying in a sling after breaking the shoulder, and in the dream he was causing ....
I grew up in the Fifties, during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower, a man admired by my father and uncles, a Kansan, a victorious general, and it’s hard to imagine Eisenhower holding up funding for a crucial rail tunnel under ....
I am enjoying being 83 more than I expected to and I’m not sure why. Happiness with no discernible cause. Maybe it’s caused by sobriety, maybe it’s a signal of dementia, maybe it’s the realization that, despite my wayward ways, ....
A DavisKeillor-Dunn double sank Stevenage to a fourth straight away defeat in League One as Barnsley pulled away from the relegation zone with a 3-1 win ... Keillor-Dunn doubled his side’s lead in ...
I am a very fortunate man of 83, deeply indebted to American medicine, still in possession of the marbles I need even though two weeks ago I took a bad fall in a hotel room in Nevada, wrecking my left ....
Now and then as He sees fit, the Lord drops us into an interesting situation to make sure we’re paying attention and a week ago Friday night, having begun a stand-up comedy tour in Bend, Oregon, to a full house ....