Take Andy’s Rather Odd Questionnaire TODAY!
Proust had his questionnaire. Facebook is filled with them. I thought I would do my own, a wee bit odd though it might be. Unlike…
Continue reading → Take Andy’s Rather Odd Questionnaire TODAY!
Page 4 of 5
My Responses to Bernard Pivot’s Questionnaire, with Apologies to James Lipton
At 66 I thought it might be time to do my own Bernard Pivot questionnaire, the one the incomparable James Lipton uses on "Inside the…
Continue reading → My Responses to Bernard Pivot’s Questionnaire, with Apologies to James Lipton
Four Tips for Spotting Bogus News Stories
How many times have you seen a headline that seems ridiculous? And then how many times have you passed that story along on Facebook or…
Continue reading → Four Tips for Spotting Bogus News Stories
Sexuality More Static Than Previously Thought
Alfred Kinsey (Great biography here)I've thought for a long time that human sexuality was fluid, that there were a nearly infinite number of forms. Much of that…
Continue reading → Sexuality More Static Than Previously Thought
Please Stop Calling Gayness a ‘Lifestyle’
Okay, straight people, listen up. Gayness is not a lifestyle. It's not a choice. It's not a preference.It is a biological condition. A genetic manifestation. Innate. Something you're born with.X ChromosomeAccording…
Continue reading → Please Stop Calling Gayness a ‘Lifestyle’
A Grandparent’s Dilemma
My poor grandson has developed the same thing his poor mother, my daughter, had, and it sucks.My daughter had childhood asthma that lasted well into…
As Fate Would Have It (A Story of Love Damn Near Missed)
Once upon a time, a lovely couple my wife and I know—let's call them Brian and Kathy because, you know, that's who they are—met under…
Continue reading → As Fate Would Have It (A Story of Love Damn Near Missed)
Gotta LUV That Spam!
And now, a short piece composed entirely of sentences and phrases of e-mail subject lines of spam messages I've actually received. No lie.
No Politics on the Golf Course!
So today I played a round of golf with three very pleasant guys. (I played horribly. I think maybe I was going back too far…
Maybe It Won’t Be All Right
Donald Trump, a despicable human being, won the presidential election last night, and I am scared out of my mind about what he might do.How…
Rock, Paper, Scissors. Garbage.
Okay, I admit it. I have no clue how Rock, Paper, Scissors works.I mean, I know Scissors beats Paper. It can cut paper, so it…
Getting Ready to Rumble! Or, You Know, Write.
My first two weeks of retirement have been spent partly getting used to being retired and mostly working around the house, doing a bunch of…
Continue reading → Getting Ready to Rumble! Or, You Know, Write.
Newly Retired and Loving It…So Far
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.— Bill Watterson, Calvin and HobbesI've been hugely fortunate in my life to do the…
The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again
I was one of millions of Baby Boomers who entered the 60s as unknowing, benign peasants and who emerged a decade or so later changed…
Black Lives MUST Matter!
Florida deputy stops black man on bike, shoots him 4 seconds laterSouth Carolina police officer charged with murder after shooting man during traffic stopNJ cops…
Eulogy for a Father
So I’m standing in the middle of right field with two outs in the last inning of a Little League game that we were actually…
The Comfort of Old Friends
I remember a kid back in high school who was an amazing basketball player and a sometimes hellion.The kid and I went to high school…
Why I Love My Moto 360 Smart Watch
My darling wife recently bought me a Moto 360 smart watch because, well, because she's an amazing woman.I gotta tell ya, I love this thing,…