I’m Not Too Old to Be An Idiot
Darn it. Back when I was young and stupid, I did something terrible I didn’t mean to. But I hurt someone deeply, someone who means the world to me. I’m not going to describe the incident, because that would be…
Darn it. Back when I was young and stupid, I did something terrible I didn’t mean to. But I hurt someone deeply, someone who means the world to me. I’m not going to describe the incident, because that would be…
Outliving bikini season angst This weekend, I was reminded to be grateful for a gift from the aging process. Like many of its gifts, it takes an adjustment in my perspective to appreciate, but once I do, boy howdy. Get…
Wait — allow me to explain Long enough ago that there’s no point in trying to recall the details, I was watching a PBS British drama set between the wars. In one scene, a gentleman, still dapper in late age,…
And now I’m in existential freefall I’m not getting married; my son is His bride is lovely, kind, gracious, intelligent, and a self-made entrepreneur who works like a demon but makes it look easy. For all her drive and achievement,…
It needs elders in the fight We have a gut-level understanding of what’s at stake Here’s what I see on the Zoom call as I prepare to do phone banking: A grid of faces, each in their little rectangles, all…