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What an awesome August!
Thank goodness the Americans won men’s basketball over the French. It’s our game, Americans invented it. To lose would be like English Sauvignon Blan…
1 year, 7 months ago
Friendship is what it's all about
I spent a couple hours on the phone the other night with a man I haven’t seen since high school, he in Northern California, I in New York City, two o…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mature man available for speaking, easy terms
I don’t require luxury accommodations. I’m fine with economy hotels. I prefer not to be put up in the home of a family with small children. A Holiday…
1 year, 7 months ago
Waiting at Gate 28
I don’t talk to many young people — so many of them wear headphones or earbuds and they look stressed out. I’m guessing the music they’re listening t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hard-earned wisdom passed on at no charge
Mostly I live in a comfortable bubble, enjoying my morning coffee, avoiding bad news that’s beyond my power to affect, bloody wars raging in Ukraine …
1 year, 8 months ago
Man walks out on stage as storm rolls in
I loved that audience dearly and gave them a good ninety minutes and afterward a distinguished man stopped by to shake hands. Back when, he’d heard m…
1 year, 8 months ago
The meaning of the freestanding life
Aging is a beautiful natural process, the wisdom gained, the growing sense of gratitude, the amusement of seeing young people make your same dumb mis…
1 year, 8 months ago
A Letter from Greenville, S.C.
I spent last week gadding about the Carolinas doing shows and enjoying the South, eating eggs and grits and hearing the waitress say, “Can I get you …
1 year, 8 months ago
A morning walk along Columbus Avenue
Now I’m an old man, in no rush, keeping an eye out for curbs and crevices and treacherous slabs of sidewalk, hoping not to make a spectacle of myself…
1 year, 8 months ago
A lucky man admits to happiness, and why not?
Ask a Midwesterner, “How are you?” and we tend to say, “Not bad” or “It could be worse,” feeling it’d sound glib or boastful to say, “Delighted,” and…
1 year, 9 months ago