For this week’s column I decided to ignore the political circus in Washington, D.C., and focus instead on another three-ring show set to take place Feb. 7: Super Bowl LV. I’m not here to criticize football, but I’m not a diehard fan. I last watched the Super Bowl to gloat when Darth Brady ...
I avoided doing a typical “year-end” column in December because my final column of 2020 was published on Dec. 21. I still held out hope that in the 10 days remaining to it, the expiring year would make a deathbed confession and redeem itself. I couldn’t guess if, like a bad tenant, 2020 ...
There’s nothing like a model train set to make you realize just how boring the 1950s were.“Wait!” you’re thinking. “We lived under the constant threat of nuclear war! We had great inventions: Videotape! Super glue! Radial tires! Mr. Potato Head!”All true. But for almost every male ...
Being just this side of ancient in the eyes of some, I am reminded this holiday season of the lyrics to “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas.” Written in 1951 by Meredith Wilson, who went on to even bigger fame with “The Music Man,” the song is a compendium of references that ...
2020: The Worst Year Ever. Ask anyone.“Personal freedoms” are being curtailed. We’re being asked to wear face masks, to limit our activities and keep our distance if we do go out in public. And now, we’re being asked to refrain from travel and large family gatherings at Thanksgiving and ...
Lessons I have learned during lockdown:<ul><li>People do not know how to read the “Wrong Way” directional signs placed on the floor of each aisle of a supermarket.</li><li>The current crop of Americans would not have made it through ...
