Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig up information…
If you try to reason with people like that, that the conspiracy they are going on about isn’t real, you become part of the conspiracy and are trying to hoodwink them.
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
In my first column for this newspaper three years ago, I wrote about one of my historical fascinations.
On Memorial Day, we traditionally honor Americans in our military who gave their lives in battle for our country. It…
As readers of this column may know, I have terminal cancer.
I had contrived to reach 62 years of age without the big event.
Ah, the Golden Rule.
After more than 56 years, I can still smell and taste the rubbery things.
I admire these guys for very different reasons.
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
It seems I got to be a geezer awful fast.
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday, deep-fake ads on Facebook and Youtube.
I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
I have not written much in this space about my mother.
“Learn a new language and get a new soul.”
I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.
