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Listening to the traffic outside our bedroom window and smiling because we don’t have to deal with it. That wonderfully cozy 15 minutes that feels...
It started when the CEO of United Health Care was assassinated. The killer had etched into his bullets the words “deny” depose” and defend,” three...
Here’s an expression I’ve been hearing a lot of lately: “What happens next?” I hear it in a specific context, relating to the current state of...
Joan and I recently spent a lovely evening with my friends and associate musicians from our church choir at a local eatery where our choir director...
It was an accident. My finger hit the wrong button and, in a flash, all my “sent” messages disappeared from their e-mail folder. I panicked. I...
Well, I managed to stick my big dumb old white guy foot in it again. An article in “The Atlantic” entitled “The Growing Gender Divide, Three...
I’m not a hoarder. I am a collector and an archivist. There’s a difference. I collect and archive reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, vinyl. I have a...
Joan and I recently got another COVID vaccine shot. ‘Why?’ you might ask. The bad news, as I’ve previously stated and that has been certified by...
They didn’t pick up the trash Tuesday morning. I thought that was odd and then I remembered it was Election Day. Joan and I had voted on Oct. 26....
I recently phone banked ahead of the Oct. 15 early voting in Georgia. As usual with every time I’ve done this, I was surprised by the result. The...
Joan and I have been lucky enough to find many great doctors to tend to our various ailments, which only get more pronounced as we age. One of the...
Nobody wants to walk through this world uninformed. We all want to gain as much knowledge as we can so we can navigate the storms of life...
I was thinking the other day about verbal expressions my family used that I don’t hear a lot anymore. For example: “scooch.” In my family of...
I’m not a “my country right or wrong” kind of guy. I’m more of a “my country right AND wrong.” There is so much that I love about America...
Let’s talk about the four two family structures in the room. On July 25, the same day Joan went into hospital for a four-day stay, work began on...
After spending an evening talking to some new friends, I have decided that I erred in my previous assertion that some of us were not on “the sexual...
I had just returned from a disastrous solo open mic set when cries from Joan sent us rushing to our nearest hospital. During her four-day stay, she...
A person shows up at my church every summer who used to attend before returning to their home in Jamaica. Now, they visit us and play tambourine...
It was all going so well! Joan and I had participated in an Open Mic at West Cork Union Hall, along with our friends Dennis, Hiroko, Andy, Nanci...
When, in 1964, I began to play music and seriously listen to it as a musician, most of the artists I admired were male. There were the Beatles, The...
I hate to say I told you so, but, I did. Some columns ago, I predicted that Joe Biden would drop out of the race due to an unspecified illness. I...