I’m here to visit my mother in rehab.  She took too many drugs and… No, she broke her hip and then her femur and she wanted me to come and here I am. I was also going to go to the Rockefeller Estate at Pocantico for a big confab about voter registration but the money […]

What impressed me most was not that we achieved revenge, or that we put a dent in terrorism, but that we executed the plan. America used to be a can-do nation.  We rolled up our sleeves and got to work.  That’s been our history forever. Until recently. Now people feel entitled to success.  They certainly […]

I didn’t see one person I knew.  Either inside or waiting outside for the 10 PM show. That’s the modern music business. Yes, he played "We Can’t Make It Here", but the highlight for me was the opening number, "Down Across The Delaware". Watch the video here: James McMurtry – Down Across The Delaware  (Sorry […]

I’m watching it. And I’m just as surprised as you. I live in the U.S.  We recoil at the concept of royalty.  Wills is likable.  Kate is cute, albeit a cipher.  But I’m reminded of nothing so much as my own wedding, and the feeling of hope, of being completely in the moment, of the […]