When you lose the generation of your parents, and you yourself become an elder, what are you to make of that? As of today, my wife and I are officially elders in our immediate family. With the passing this afternoon of my mother-in-law, 93, whose moniker among her five kids and their kids is Racy…
In Florida, geezers rule. If a politician wants to stop us from driving, we just shoot him. It’s the law. A few weeks back, a local 93-year-old driver struck a pedestrian, severing his leg, and killing him instantly. The driver never slowed. Three miles later he reached our Sunshine Skyway Bridge where a toll taker…
Common Sense lived a long life but died in the United States from heart failure on the brink of the new millennium. The tragic death of common sense is a devastating loss to this nation. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape….
Here’s how I remember it… I’d drive to the back of the large field partially filled with scores of other cars. Stars blazed in the black sky overhead Finding just the right spot, well back from the refreshment stand, I’d swing my ’39 Studebaker up onto the mound, secure the speaker in the window, kick…
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