A Depressing Memory I’ve never told this story, but it has haunted me for years, the time I made and lost over four million dollars. My story is set early in 1992. I had just resigned from Intel, turned fifty, and was looking for something interesting to do for my last few years. My six…

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When I retired, we moved to our second home in Arizona. We soon learned that our lovely guard-gated community had no activities or get-togethers of any kind and no sense of community. After five years, we had developed no friendships. I had no golfing buddies, and Linda’s only friends were women she saw professionally: her…

A Parable A friend and neighbor came to me with what she believes is an important proposal for the Country Club Estates Home Owners Association. She passionately argues that our clubhouse needs a new crock-pot. They’re only $29.95 at Wal Mart, we really need one, we can afford one, and our collective lives will all…

One year ago my wife and I moved into what was promoted as, and what seemed to be an active adult community. Sadly, we were to learn that the only activity in this otherwise lovely community is pissing-and-moaning with our elected Homeowners Association (HOA) officials. Somehow our HOA got off on the wrong foot or…

When I’ve bumped into celebrities unexpectedly I have introduced myself as an admirer and fan, offered to shake their hands, and to chat if they’re amiable. The following encounters are my most memorable.   A Beer with Wilt Linda and I enjoyed my company’s season tickets to the Lakers whenever they were available. We became…

I’m a liberal. I like to think of myself as a moderate, a Ted Kennedy sort of liberal. I have a passion for making healthcare available and affordable to all Americans, making lower-priced, foreign drugs available, and making a college education affordable. I can deal with conservatives, opponents, foes, and antagonist of all kinds. Sometimes…

I’m a liberal. I like to think of myself as a moderate, a Ted Kennedy sort of liberal. I have a passion for making healthcare available and affordable to all Americans, making lower-priced, foreign drugs available, and making a college education affordable. I can deal with conservatives, opponents, foes, and antagonist of all kinds. Sometimes…

It’s early morning of January 6, 2023, and I am about to relive one of the darkest days in American history. January 6, 2021, the day an armed mob of Americans stormed our Capitol Building in an attempt to prevent a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to declare Joe Biden…

Linda and Bob had been going steady for the better part of a year. She wore his class ring and letter sweater. Bob wanted to be a beatnik artist rather than a high-school student, so he dropped out of high school early in my senior year to attend The Colorado Institute of Art. One morning…