Thought For The Day, March 28, 2019: Dedicated to Barbra Streisand. People who need people are referred to as dependents. READ “The Forties & The…
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I smoke Lucky Strike cigarettes. Not very many people smoke them these days because they have…
I actually sold a book. This evening, while talking (and drinking), my friend, Joe, bought “Wrath of Grapes.” I have written four books over the…
Walter Mitty is a character in a 1939 short story by James Thurber entitled “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” If you have never read…
“Diversity” is one of those things which sounds good, at least on the surface. The problem is that diversity, as used in the popular context,…
A Pleasant Surprise: I recently wrote a blog about the movie “Show Boat,” and I said that I had never gotten around to reading the…
The phrase, “A dog’s life” isn’t always a bad deal. That is, if it happens to be the dog my wife Carolyn is taking care…
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Picture yourself at a party, which is located in a house, which is sitting atop a mountain, which has a long, steep,…
Retraction. It just about kills me to do this. I mean, saying, “retraction” is pretty much akin to saying, “mistake.” I hate to make mistakes.…
I’m not against public transportation, that is, in the right venue. For example, New York City would fall apart without public transportation. Well, now that…