How I stopped searching for glory and found it barefoot on the lawn Like many men, I prefer the heroic version of my life. Triumph. Audacity. Grandeur. Master of the Universe stuff. When I look backward, I do not see one complete life. I see something more like the Andes—a […]
Your ancestors who arose from the non-living deserve a shout-out. Scribes, anchors, columnists, and other professional worriers are already preparing us for the national agony of America’s 250th anniversary. Washington, D.C. will be draped in bunting, speeches, security barriers, and anxiety. There will be solemn talk about the reflecting pool, […]
YOU’VE EVOLVED SO MUCH. COME SO FAR. WHERE’S THE KEYS? FIND THOSE DAMN KEYS? I was rebuked by ChatGPT recently. While writing about homo sapiens, our allegedly superior brains, and […]
We aspire to be rational, fact driven humans who occasionally submit to emotional pulls on our decision-making process. No. Not even remotely true. We’ve always been emotional beings who […]
BUSTED IN PROVINCETOWN Octogenarian vice ring smashed by iPhone shutdown error Last night the Provincetown police pounded on our hotel room door. This is never encouraging. Police officers rarely arrive […]
The indignity of having your vocabulary upgraded by a foreigner half a century late Humiliation is a nasty sentiment we should leave behind in youth. By my age, dignity ought […]