Dear classmates, Old age is not as great as you might have thought it would be. I had what is mockingly called a “complete knee transplant” on Dec. 1, 2022. The patient (yours truly) awakened from an excruciating spinal to…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2023 — It’s a dreary, cold day here in glorious LA. I am still suffering terribly from my “complete knee replacement.” But I have my wifey next to me in bed all day. Wifey and…
It’s Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. It’s been raining like mad insanity for about a week now and this follows several weeks of occasional rain. It was predicted for years that we in Sunny Cal were in for a Thousand Year…
Here comes a bit more wisdom from your humble servant. Love is the most important thing in the world. It is the sunshine that illuminates the earth. It makes the sad happy. It improves health. It makes us want to…
Sunday — The first day of the year. 2022 was a devastating year. The horribly sudden death of my dear pal, Aram Bakshian, as fine a man as I have ever known. Next door neighbor at the EOB (part of the…
This is Saturday. My 78th birthday was yesterday, November 25, 2022. I am so blessed to be celebrating it in America, in Beverly Hills, in bed with my Big Wifey, and with my pals, I just cannot adequately express it….
Saturday — It’s a perfect day here in Beverly Hills. Blue skies. Light breeze. My pool is at 89 degrees. That’s the temperature I like. I learned that from Richard Nixon. He invited my father, mother, and me to Camp David…
Sunday. Here I am in Greenville, South Carolina, at the Westin Poinsett. I’m here for the wedding of my son, Tommy, to his fiancée Bri. They’re both in their mid-30s. She works hard as a caregiver for a “special needs”…
Dear Tommy, You are about to embark on a fantastically difficult journey — the journey of trying to make the major relationship of your life work. I am about to offer a few thoughts on the subject that may be…
