My Heroes
Thurs. two days before the bike event: I bought the healthy snacks my wonderful AARP editor, Allan, a long distance biker, told me to buy...
A LISTICLE ABOUT ROAST BEEF ON KIMMELWECK, AARP AND MY PATELLA
1. My Buffalo News piece on my upcoming Bennett High reunion (Sept. 5, 2014 and posted on my blog Sept. 16, 2014) has been reprinted in...
What I Brought to St. Croix (beside myself)
I’m sitting at Mermaid Beach in St. Croix, staring out at the water and at the iguana in the sand 20 feet away. The iguana is bigger than...
Viva Las Vegas! Viva Mom and Dad!
On my last trip to Las Vegas at age 25, I played roulette every day after swimming. One afternoon, Richie Havens gambled at the same...
50 THINGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN SEX
My current AARP column, 50 Things That Are Better Than Sex, can be found at this link: www.aarp.org/home-family/home-family-experts/singl...
LOVE AND WORK AND STUFF AND BECOMING A REDUCED PERSON
Tolstoy, in a letter to Valerya Aresenyev, November 9, 1856, said, “One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and...
WHAT TO BRING TO CAMP AND LIFE
WHAT TO BRING TO CAMP AND LIFE (This essay appeared in different form on AARP’s website.) Each spring, Uncle Lou, the director of Camp...
WHO’S READING IN THE KITCHEN?
It is six am on the date of my father’s birthday. He would have been 104. I am writing this on my living room sofa with just one light...