An introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks Maxie Allen always taught her Stipendiary little daughter To thank her Lord and lucky star For eye that let her see so far, For throat enabling her to eat Her...
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Can Your Marriage Survive Retirement?
In retirement, couples have to cope with a more intrusive co-existence. How well you handle it can depend on your perspective.
A History of Dolls
Playthings… and collectibles This is a look at dolls. No not the kind Frank Sinatra sang about. The kind my younger sister had all over her bed, on her bookshelves and even sitting...
Contextualizing the Undefinable
A problem that should be easy to solve. We live in a new world. A world where everyday we say, “That’s amazing, that’s unbelievable, that can’t be true”… and yet it is. This is a world which...
The Horror of Nursery Rhymes
Keep your kids away from them. Parents have mindlessly recited century’s old nursery rhymes to their kiddies for hundreds of years. They have a feel-good tone, and there’s evidence that...
Women Beat Writers
Finally, some well-deserved attention. Like most disciplines in the mid twentieth century, literature has been male dominated. Most of the major movements in art and culture have had the same agenda...
Spandex, The Yankees, and a 13 Billion Year Old Window
Things that I obsess about Like a great many people in my demographic I am interested in a multitude of captivating topics. How are my NY Yankees doing, Why do the Rolling Stones still...
Maybe Older Really is Better
What Karl Marx once called ‘commodity fetishism’, we now call ‘fashionably trendy’. What the muscle cars of the1960’s were as iconic representations of an era, today it is exotic pre-owned wrist...
The Loire Valley
France at it most Medieval A visit to this region of France, a short drive from Paris, will make you feel as though you’ve stepped back in time. During the Middle Ages, royal families came here...
Retirement 101: Maintaining Continuity
Bringing your stuff with you. It should be easy — stop working and go play. But it’s not. We live in a work-driven culture, and so work is in our DNA and retirement is antithetical to who we are...
