A Late Starter Dawdling Through Life
The Wizard of Oz is a great movie. No question. Like most people who grew up on it in the age of television, I’ve probably seen it close to a hundred times. It’s an Easter perennial, like The Ten Commandments … Continued
It happened again Saturday night. My wife was on the couch, I was in the recliner, and we were watching Saturday Night Live. Halfway through one of their skits, as regular as church bells, she asked, “Is this really the … Continued
Noise. You can’t escape it. Used to be you could pull up to the gas pump, pop open the gas cap, and pump the tank full while enjoying the peaceful sounds of passing traffic and getting high on fumes. Now, … Continued
It’s nine o’clock at night and you’re reclining on your couch. The kids are in bed, you’re watching one of your favorite shows, and perhaps you’re reading the latest potboiler, glancing up from the pages every now and again at … Continued
They told us that most couples who win the lottery wind up divorced, but we didn’t believe them. It seemed so farfetched. We love each other. It was only money, after all. Just because other couples didn’t know how to … Continued