As we age and lose life partners, finding senior companionship can be a trying task. I, for one, never want to end up on “the reservation”. An old uncle of mine used to call it the senior citizen care center. He wound up and died there. Luckily I still, at 82, have my wife to…
One of the things that go with the territory of being a published essayist or columnist is that you get called a lot of names by readers expressing their opinions of what you have written. Sometimes, you learn from them; others you simply shrug them off. But a couple of comments following a column I…
Some towns are just made for geezers. One of my favorites is Savannah, Ga. Savannah has everything close at hand, relatively inexpensive and comfortable, to keep you occupied between naps for as long as you want. Over the years I have been to Savannah many times in my travels, but seldom more than for a…
I don’t know whether it was my second or third trip driving through Sendai, Japan in the 1950s. It was then that I noticed two old Nipponese women sitting on a bench outside one of the local train stations. There Goes the Bride, Groom, Kids I was an analyst for an Army Intelligence operation in…
I doubt if many of us who have reached our Golden Years had to worry too much about giving up our virginity to vote for any particular party but for one I am more than glad to see the long, long blitz of political television ads finally come to an end. As Seen on TV:…
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