Rome doesn’t want me in the Eternal City.
I am wrapping my head around this, and it may sound farfetched, but I’ve come to the only logical conclusion.
Logic works a little …
We interrupt the gloom for some good news
Out of my 65 turns around the sun, I have now been associated – in some form or fashion – with the newspaper business for 43 of those years.
Wow. That’s …
Singing the 65th ‘Birthday Blues’
Wish I could tell you how well I coped with turning 65 last Saturday. Problem is, I don’t like to lie.
And I really, really tried. I channeled my mother, remembering …
More words of wisdom from Mother
In continuing the words of wisdom from my mother that I started last week, I am reminded of her wise, sage advice and of her absolutely nonsensical, no-explanation-available comments.
A favorite …
Words of wisdom from Mother
My mother died in 1990 at age 65. It has been almost 30 years, and I still think of her almost every day and miss her. She is never far …
Balance and Darth Vader
When the upbeat, self-expressive millennials of today talk about “balance,” they are customarily referring to a balance of work and life – with quite a bit of emphasis on life’s …
Losing Lexi
With most things in my life, I try for perspective. Events – sad, happy, tragic or joyous – are best accepted and/or enjoyed if kept in the right proportion. I’m …
Metamorphosis of a book-buyer
Sometimes I feel like an Amazon lab rat.
Not the Amazon region, rainforest rat. I feel like a Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com, caught-in-the-maze lab rat.
To make it worse, I seem to enter …