I would judge where I live as an upwardly mobile neighborhood, one whose homes attract the professionals of our community. And so, over the past forty years of my residency, it had proven itself to be just as I had always thought it was -- that is until the occurrences of a few incidents over the last year that have left me breathless with a sense of being morally invaded. . . . . More Text

Everyday a new dilemma appears! And everyday Pres Bush is in a different place -- both physically and mentally -- just like he was in his campaign for the presidency. Do you remember his vow, "We are not nation builders!" . . . . More Text

I've been writing technical manuals, human-interest stories and humor columns for years now and, at one time or another, I've met, corresponded with, and even become friends with other writers in those fields around the world. . . . . More Text

As I have written before, after retirement, our Retirees can't retire from the general work force; they just can't seem to sit still. . . . . More Text

All of our senses have a way of reconnecting us with the past. For me, I remember my childhood of long-ago summers spent on a small farm in Connecticut tending chickens and barnyard animals, . . . . More Text

DON'T WORRY I CAN READ YOU LOUD AND CLEAR!

We've seen some pretty amazing technological advances in the last thirty some odd years. Rolled-up sheets of dehydrated fruit, the Atari 2600 joystick (it had eight directions and one fire button, and by God that was all we needed!) . . . . More Text

There is fertile fodder for writing in the ancients. Today so many theater artists are revisiting the gods and mortals of ancient Greece and Rome, such as Phaedra, Oedipus, Apollo and Phaethon, Orpheus and Eurydice. . . . . More Text

Well, here I am again! Just as I promised you I would be, talking about (ugh) Wheels. Crackling cicerones, wheels are something that I know absolutely nothing about since I don't own and have never used any to go from one place to the other. . . . . More Text

Now, I don't think that lots of folks are going to mourn the passing of Guccione's Penthouse Magazine any more than they'll bemoan the demise of the Roadster Oldsmobile. There are plenty of other cars on the market and there will always be plenty of smut available on newsstands as well as online. . . . . More Text

Got a couple-of E-mails last month that just broke me up. Seems like Christina L., who claims that she sits at her computer sometimes for nine hours straight going from one link to the other, . . . . More Text

Never, since my younger days when I was in Dealer's School, have I had so many gamblin' type questions thrown at me that demanded such precise answers. More than three quarters of the mail pertains to craps . . . . More Text

Since September 11, 2001 or "9/11", as that infamous day is called now and forever will be known that way in our history annuals 'till the end of time, I've done very little traveling by plane. I would say that in the last eight months I've cut my air traveling down by at least two thirds. . . . . More Text

Have you ever wondered what the rest of the world is doing? I don't mean the political world, as -- Good God -- we get enough of that! I mean the rest of the world. . . . . More Text