25-11 150th Street;150-12A 26th Avenue;194-01 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York. Those were my three addresses in New York City from 1947 to 1961. FL 8-6178;NE 2-6272;BA 5-1806. Those were my…
During this most challenging time of my 86-year life, why does this soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Macbeth keep playing in my weak brain? “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrowCreeps in this petty pace from…
One of my college profs once told a story I’ve never forgotten. A teacher asked a student to summarize the meaning of life. His first attempt ran 10 pages. Too…
You might remember that line. "I'd walk a mile for a Camel." Way back when, like about 70 years ago, that was a famous ad line for Camel cigarettes, a…
German composer, Richard Wagner wrote a series of four operas, which he entitled The Ring of the Niebelung. Took him over 20 years to write, and it takes 15 hours…
Who were your heroes? John Wayne in The Sands of Iwo Jima, Back to Bataan, and Flying Tigers.Gary Cooper in High Noon.Roy Rogers or Gene Autry in about a million different westerns?? Nope. None…
Just Margie and me, and her sister makes three.Mary Louise came down from Virginia to spend the week with us.Now it’s just the three of us, catching our breath after…
Now I am a cat person. Never thought I'd say that, but I have evolved over 86 years into an honest to goodness cat person. We had a dog, Teddi,…
Life for an octogenarian has many hazards. One of them is winding up on the ground when you least expect it (aka falling). If you're lucky you fall on your…
When Marjorie said, "I do," she became part of a family structure far different from how she was raised. I'm a Yankee from New York and a half orphan, you…