Next month Taylor Swift will be twenty.  She’s already had her heart broken, but she’s not quite aware how complicated and confusing life truly is, how you can seemingly be on top of the world and commit suicide, like Freddie Prinze, how you can be almost broke, but be beamingly happy. But Taylor does know […]

THE GRAND CANYON We were only on the South Rim for three hours.  Deploying at the Bright Angel Lodge. I hadn’t been there since 1966.  Needless to say, the Grand Canyon hadn’t changed.  It’s vast!  Far larger than you can imagine, almost too big to comprehend.  A huge hole with giant mountains resembling tits cropping […]

I saw him live. Must’ve been the summer of ’66.  He was already on the downward slope.  But for a year or so there, he was the sixties "South Park", the hippest show amongst the barely pubescent. Oh, Mr. Sales had been on TV for years.  But it was a children’s show.  Until he got […]

Am I a rich person or a poor person? I’ve been having ongoing pain when I bite.  But the dentist couldn’t figure out exactly which tooth it was.  Until it got so bad fifteen months ago that it was clear it was the rear molar and he put a crown on it and voila!, the […]